API Request: Revit Status Bar

[Anonymous]

Hi!

I attended "The Building Coder Chatroom" at the RTC in budapest and asked the Panel the following question:
"Can I access the Revit status bar thorugh the API and a ping the progress bar inside it? Can I use the Revit progress bar?"

The answer was: "There was a discussion on this a while back and something was pretty hard about it."

It would be nice to access the status bar, both the string and the progress bar to give user feedback when our addons work. Will this be possible (soon)?

Eirik

[Revitalizer]

Hi Eirik,

you can set the statusbar text:

http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2011/02/status-bar-text.html

But you cannot access the progressbar.

Revitalizer (who triggered this TBC posting and who was also on RTC)

[Anonymous]

I will give that a try!

Thanks,

Eirik

[arnostlobel]

You should be able to get not only the text but also the progress value through the ProgressChanged event. One needs to be careful with processing the events and that is for two reasons: a) there may be be quite a few of them, and b) believe there may be nested progresses too.

[Anonymous]

Thank you for answering.

Getting the value of the progress bar is not that interesting, I'm asking if i could manipulate the value when i'm running an external command (Revit do not need it when the comand is running). That way I could provide meaningfull feedback to the user when my addin is working. 

Eirik

[arnostlobel · Accepted solution]

Unfortunately, the reverse process (i.e. controlling the progress from outside) is not available in the API. We have actually tried to make it work, but failed. It is still on a to-do list, but I am not sure what the priority is. Sorry about that.

[Anonymous]

Thanks,

I basically got the same answer in Budapest, and was asked to post the request on this forum in case there are other API users out there who also want to access and modify the status bar. Hopefully, it will be possible one day.

Eirik

[Anonymous]

I ended up implementing my own statusbar as a modeless dialog. Does the trick.