Sync Views bugfix, Copy State improvements

[melnikovalex]

Hey Ehsan,

Sorry, missed your message in the last PR. Here are the same changes as in #893, with no outdated commits + one more bugfix. I've seen you've already made some changes in these files. If so, please have a look at the last commit:

• e348ffa - Fix CopyState - ViewZoomPanState

Here are the old changes, from previous PR:

So it looks like we messed up Sync View (also in Copy State) a bit. It stopped working at all in the new release.

I did the fixes (bf7a39e , cced091) and added a couple of improvements:

• e745bc1, d9dbb9e Paste State script - show only actions with data

Added a new method into pyrevit.script which returns true if datafile exists. Can be moved out of there if it's too narrow case.

• f35ca4a Copy State - allow to copy between projects

I can name several use cases when it's necessary: to navigate in two linked model (e.g. structural and architectural, it should also work in two Revit sessions), to compare visual differences with an older version of a model.

It won't work with Filters and V/G Settings, unfortunately, so there are a couple of extra lines to say which method only for this_project.

I was wondering if it is possible to do the same for 'Sync Views'. Doing it directly could be annoying if you switching between not connected projects. I was thinking about enabling it with Shift Click but couldn't find a good solution for that.

• a20cc71 Copy Filter Overrides - support active view, fixes

When I code this part before, the idea was to be able to copy from active_view and paste to active view. So I recovered this code. If no views selected, it gets or sets data for the active one.

Thanks,
Alex

[eirannejad]

Thank you so much @melnikovalex I know preparing these meticulous PRs are hard and I really appreciate you supporting this project 🙏