Newbie questions

[StrRevitEng]

Hi,

after some RevitAPI development with pyRevit, I have decided to give C# a go.

My questions are as follows:

1. How do I take input from the user? are there any forms for C#?

2. Do I really have to rebuild my code and restart Revit for every change I make in my code?

Thank you

[jeremy_tammik]

Welcome to the Revit API and hope you enjoy trying it out.

First: the Revit API does not provide any ready-made forms that I can think of. Input methods are provided by the Selection class to pick points, elements, subelements:

• https://www.revitapidocs.com/2024/a2847bd6-bcac-9233-584f-77ca54c4a800.htm

You can check out the ADN UI labs for all overview of all the UI methods:

• https://github.com/jeremytammik/AdnRevitApiLabsXtra

Second: nope, not necessarily. Here are various ways to avoid that::

• https://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/about-the-author.html#5.49

[StrRevitEng]

Thanks for your answer! Ill definitely will give it a look.