Keep Message Box up after Script Complete?

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Is there a way to have a popup message that stays after a script has completed its run?

I have a script that generates a report based on the current view compared to an excel file. I’m using the rhythm node simpleUserMessage right now. but I can’t make changes in revit until I close the popup window. ideally I want to to run the script and have the window stick around on my second screen while I fix the model.

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As far as I’m aware, those UI nodes run within the current transaction. Your Dynamo graph is technically still running until they’ve been handled. You might be able to open a text file with a message instead, as that could remain open after the transaction completes.

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I am fairly certain that unless you call to launch an external application (ie: a different desktop application) which runs out of process, the window which pops up will prevent Revit from progressing further.

I can think of a few ways to do this without requiring too big of a lift. The text document was a good one if it is just a non-formatted string. A web page might also work well, and would give more data to work with.

A full solution would likely be to launch an add-in via some form of Revit hosted browser in a new pallet (similar to the issues add-in, or the shared views add-in) and utilize that to display data which you pack into the extensible storage data in the RVT.

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@jacob.small thanks. that was good advice

I’ve been just using windows snip. But needed to polish it a bit before rolling it out company wide.

Here is the python code if anyone wnat s to do similar

import sys
sys.path.append(r"C:\Program Files (x86)\IronPython 2.7\Lib")

import subprocess
subprocess.Popen([r"notepad.exe",IN[0]])
OUT = IN[0]

just plugin your temp saved .txt file and it’ll background open in windows.

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