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Selection.PickBox

Description:
Invokes a general purpose two-click editor that lets the user to specify a rectangular area on the screen.

Remarks:
The method starts an editor and returns when it finishes. Returns a PickedBox that contains two XYZ points.

Overloads (2):

PickBox

PickBox(PickBoxStyle)

PickBox(PickBoxStyle,String)

public PickedBox PickBox(
	PickBoxStyle style,
	string statusPrompt
)

Public Function PickBox ( 
	style As PickBoxStyle,
	statusPrompt As String
) As PickedBox

public:
PickedBox^ PickBox(
	PickBoxStyle style, 
	String^ statusPrompt
)

member PickBox : 
        style : PickBoxStyle * 
        statusPrompt : string -> PickedBox

PickBoxStyle

style

Specifies the value that controls the style of the pick box.
String

statusPrompt

The message shown on the status bar.

Return Value PickedBox The picked box that contains two XYZ points.

ArgumentOutOfRangeException

Thrown when the style is not a recognized value.
ArgumentNullException

Thrown when the argument statusPrompt is.
OperationCanceledException

Thrown when the Revit user cancelled this operation. Thrown when the Revit user tried to switch the active view, close the active document or Revit application when responding to this mode.