Prevent modeless form from crashing

[Coen Claus]

Goodday.

With the help from you all I managed to make a modeless form application which allows Revit to be active and my tool simulteanously.

However when the user clicks another button from my add-in it causes the following Error. (See attached image).

I can work around this using the the form.ShowDialog(). However that causes Revit not to be active.

Is there a way to prevent these errors showing up?

My code

form = AssemblyFilter()
external_event = ExternalEvent.Create(form)
Application.Run(form)

The tool I am working on so far:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC_OerVvPqo

 

[Daren Thomas]

Dear Coen,

The problem is with the line "Application.Run(form)" - that effectively creates a new event loop, the part of a windows program that gets OS level events (mouse movements, keys pressed and released, shutdown events and a whole list of other stuff that can happen) and processes them. Revit itself, as the host application, does this. You should be using something like "form.Show()" instead.

Best,

Daren

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[Coen Claus]

Thanks Daren for your answer,

I thought maybe a workaround for Revit to be active while the add-In is runninng can be the following:

Do you think it is a smart idea to disable the buttons on the Add-Ins Ribbon so the user can still select elements in the Active View But can't press the buttons to prevent creating new event loops.

That brings me to another question, I don't know how to disable the buttons on the Ribbon.

I guess I need the following, but I don't know how to find specific buttons to disable. I know form.showDialog() just block the entire Ribbon.

But maybe I can also use this:

Autodesk.Revit.UI.RibbonButton.Enabled

Anyway, now I'm rambling.

[Daren Thomas]

I'm not really sure what you're trying to achieve... "prevent creating new event loops", there is only one event loop per Windows application...

[Coen Claus]

My apologies, still learning. 

Let me rephrase the question.

I am accessing:

Autodesk.Revit.UI.RibbonButton.Enabled

Enabled needs a get and set Parameter according to RevitAPIDocs

There are examples given in C# and Visual Basic. But I have no experience with these languages and don't know how to translate it to Python...

[Daren Thomas]

I think you should just be able to set the `Enabled` property of the RibbonButton (you have an instance of one of those, right?) to `True`.