Embed Video in ToolTip

[RickyBell]

I found Jeremy's article from 2012 ( http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2012/09/video-animated-ribbon-item-tooltip.html ) that shows how to embed a swf file in Revit 2012's Ribbon.  Is there an updated proceedure for 2014/2015?  Looking through the help file and SDK and I'm finding nothing relating to tooltip videos.

Thanks!

[Aaron.Lu · Accepted solution]

Dear Ricky, what type of video do you want to embed, have you tried Jeremy's method? if yes, would you let us know what is the problem?

thanks.

[RickyBell]

Thanks for the reply Aaron,

I haven't come across any other method than the one just I linked to.  I'll embed any type of video it will let me.  The example I found on Friday was for a Flash Video file.  With the 2015 API I was unable to find anything on the ExpandedContent or the RevitToolTip Class.

Thanks for your help.

[Aaron.Lu]

What about using same code but only changing the .swf to whatever your video format? you can let us know the result or the error message.
thanks

[RickyBell]

Ok, so I got his example compiling.  I was having issues with namespaces and such.  I got it figured out thanks to his example project and good ol' copy and paste.  In Revit (2014), when I hover over any of his three example buttons, I get "Video is loading..." and an error message.  "AdFlashVideoPlayer Library not registered."

Almost there.  Any ideas?  Thanks.

[RickyBell · Accepted solution]

Alright, it's working.  Sorry to waste your time.  The example is good and it's not too hard to implement.

The error message was because I didn't have the Flash Player for ActiveX/Internet Explorer installed on my development machine.  Thanks for your help!

[RickyBell · Accepted solution]

To add to the list of compatible video files, I found that embedding your video file in the swf file works.  FLV (Flash Video Format, vp6 codec) will come in the easiest.  M4V Files require flash to put in a small player, but work great.  It looks like anything that uses the H.264 codec will also work.  Hope this helps someone trying to do ToolTip Videos.

[Aaron.Lu]

Cool 😉