How to use Deploy Rps Addin

[Hoss M]

Hello,

I was wondering if there is a how to manual or even better a demo for how to use the Deploy Rps Addin?

Thanks for your help in advance

[Callum]

Hi Hoss, the first couple of hits in Google are your best bet Id say:

- The online book that they both link to are a wealth of information thats still relevant today

- Further down the list of Google results are real-world examples by multiple authors

Any further questions let us know!

[Hoss M]

Thank you very much, I was keep getting error when trying to access the top two search results, but it is working ok today.

I will give it a try and sure will be back asking for help if needed.

Thanks again for your help

[Hoss M]

Hello again,

is there a possibility to create a Tab during the process of RPS Addin, and add the panel / pushbuttons to the tab?

Thanks 

[Callum]

Hi Hoss, it is possible to add Tabs and Panels when using a startupscript:

https://darenatwork.blogspot.com/2013/05/new-feature-startupscript-in.html

https://darenatwork.blogspot.com/2013/05/deploying-rps-scripts-with.html

But I dont think there is a way when you are adding a ribbon button from the RPS configuration interface:

[Steven Williams]

I prefer to use pyRevit for this kind of work. It makes developing ribbons/tabs/buttons both easy and maintainable. At least this has been my experience in the past -- revitPythonShell for testing short scripts or API calls, the pyRevit to bundle things up in a ribbon.

[Hoss M]

Pyrevit makes it very very easy indeed, but the ideal behind "Deploy RPS Addinn" is to be able to share your tools with others who don't have Pyrevit and Revit python shell installed on their PCs.

What i am hoping to achieve is similar to what has been show in this post

https://groups.google.com/g/revitpythonshell/c/tzTbmNRQicg/m/Ky-WkCS6AgAJ

[Hoss M]

https://groups.google.com/group/revitpythonshell/attach/2ba2490962f2b/Ribbon.png?part=0.1&view=1

[Hoss M]

Hi, 

the following line in my start up script returning an error 

from RevitPythonShell.RpsRuntime import ExternalCommandAssemblyBuilder

ImportError: No module named RevitPythonShell.RpsRuntime

I am using Revit 2021

Thanks for your help

[Callum]

Not sure why this would be. 

Does that import line work in a standard RPS Console window in a Revit session? It works when I run it there

[Hoss M]

Same result

"" IronPython 3.4.1 (3.4.1.1000)
[.NETFramework,Version=v4.6.2 on .NET Framework 4.8.9195.0 (64-bit)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from RevitPythonShell.RpsRuntime import ExternalCommandAssemblyBuilder
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>

ImportError: No module named 'RevitPythonShell.RpsRuntime'
>>> ""

I have tried re-installing Revitpythonshell and still same result.

One thing that I have noticed is, I don't have anything in the Program files (x86) or  Program files.

Only place I could find  Revitpythonshell is within the addin folders, with the files inside:

[Callum]

Yeah thats strange that you dont have the installation files that I do. Mine are in the Program FIles (x86) folder - could be that Im using an older installation though (which uses different file locations). Anyone know how to look into the RevitPythonShell / RpsRuntime dlls and see if its missing the  ExternalCommandAssemblyBuilder assembly?

Otherwise (just stabbing in the dark), you could try 

"from RpsRuntime import  ExternalCommandAssemblyBuilder"

[Hoss M]

Hello Callum,

I tried 

Otherwise (just stabbing in the dark), you could try 

"from RpsRuntime import  ExternalCommandAssemblyBuilder"

 

and all working fine now, thanks for your help, greatly appreciated

[Hoss M]

In the simple_ribbon.py file , which will be used as start up script ( if I understood that correctly), does the DLL_PATH need to reflect the finished product path?

lets say I am planning to deploy the "HelloWorld" to revit 2022, will the path needs to be ....AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\Revit\Addins\2024\HelloWorldRibbon.dll

could someone kindly share their working startup script so I can double check mine please?

My second question:

If some modules from "revitpythonwrapper" or "PyRevit" have been used in the script, how do you get them exported to the dll file?

Thanks again for your help and support