Strange German words that replace macro in Rhino 7

Rhino
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I made a copy of one of the default icons (Bounding box) and put my own macro there. The RMB window was empty. However, no matter how many times I run Rhino 7 again, the RMB tooltip automatically generates the following sentence in German language:

Hüllkörper, Ausrichtung der Konstruktionsebene

Then I delete it, and it appears again the next time I start Rhino 7. Is there any way to get rid of this thing and leave the RMB field empty?

I had multiple cases like this in the past in various other languages, but I was always able to get rid of these after deleting them twice. However, this one is very stubborn.

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I recall seeing similar issues with buttons. There is no chance that this will be fixed for Rhino 7.

I’d make a new button from scratch and copy over the image.

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I simply copied a different icon and the bug is gone. Seems like the bug only happens with certain icons.

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Made many reports of this in the past… This is almost always the result of copying an existing button and then changing the macro on the copy - most often with buttons that have both LMB and RMB commands. You can get tooltips in German, Czech, or even some Asian language.

Only remedy is to remake the button from scratch. I do not recommend copying buttons, especially in V7, but not in V8 either. Suggest you always make the macro first via the macro editor, then make the new button, choose the macro, and add the image.

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I figured out that if I replace the original command or macro on the RMB with another one (instead of leaving it empty), then restart Rhino, it will keep my RMB command. Then, I can delete the latter and the empty field will remain that way forever.

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Yeah, interesting tactic - adding a different macro probably has the effect of actually severing the link to the original RMB macro - which apparently just blanking out the fields in the button editor did not do completely. Still doesn’t explain why the tooltips came up in a language that is not the one you were running Rhino in.

Anyway, as I said earlier, I still don’t recommend copying buttons. Every new button command I make now is done via the macro editor first, then adding the macro to the button. 100% reliable.

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Another reliable way of adding new icons in Rhino 7 is to copy an existing custom icon. It no longer has connection with Rhino’s default icons. But the bug remains and this is the first time I had such a stubborn icon. :slight_smile: New users may be frustrated. As far as I know, Rhino 8 introduced a whole lot of new issues with linked toolbars and icons.