Use_pdf_in_dark_mode.txt on my Desktop

Rhino Rhino for Windows
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Hi,

A few months back I suddenly had a file named “use_pdf_in_dark_mode.txt” on my desktop.
It contained what appeared to be a GUI string. Google search did find anything on that filename.

I was clueless what process put it there.

Today I had the file appear on my desktop again and searched Google resulting in a single link to a german forum with a person that also has Rhino installed.

Since I just updated Rhino … it might be the installer/updater put it there.

Hi @JohnM I see your comment in this issue and now are certain Rhino put it on my desktop:
https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-56296

I’m just not sure how it appears there since I’m running Rh6 on a Windows machine
Rh7 is installed but I don’t recall touching it the last week.

thanks
-Willem

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I found the cause

In Rhino 6, if I right-double-click on a toolbar button, a text file appears on my desktop.

The file is save to delete if you don’t need anything related to pdf’s and darkmode.

-Willem

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Yep, I get them regularly here too. I delete the file but it always comes back. This is annoying, how do we shut it off?

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Hi @Willem, same here. I keep deleting it over and over.

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c.

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And I don’t believe I (intentionally) right double click on toolbar icons - maybe accidentally occasionally, but not with this frequency… (at least I hope not)

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It’s been nagging me every now and then and I had absolutely no clue what caused the file to appear on my desktop.

I think it very unprofessional practice to put a ‘workaround feature’ like this is in an application.

-Willem

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RH-56996
-wim

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I’ve been getting it since I updated to Rhino 6. I’ve just been deleting them.

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I just made a change that requires the Ctrl+Shift keys to be pressed when right mouse double clicking the toolbar button to write to the “use_pdf_in_dark_mode.txt” file. This should make it much harder to accidentally write the file. The change was committed to 6.x and will merge down into 7.x.

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Hi @JohnM,

has your change made it into SR23 on Windows (6.23.20055.13111, 24.02.2020) ?

I still get this file created and can repeat that when i double right click on a toolbar icon without ever holding Ctrl+Shift. If i double right click the command line shows this:

1->361901dc-8490-49b1-9880-459e42ad0c67

which is obviously the content of the text file.

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c.

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Hi Clement - from that YT report, you can see that this went into SR24 - which is available as a SR Candidate.
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-wim

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Hi @wim, ok thanks.

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c.

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Hi John, Can you please explain to me how I can make the change so that “requires the Ctrl+Shift keys to be pressed when right mouse double clicking the toolbar button”. Thanks

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The change should be in the latest service release and not require you to do anything. Ctrl+Shift+DoubleRightClick is a mechanism designed for default.rui authors to write information to the desktop. Are you seeing a use_pdf_in_dark_mode.txt on your desktop when doing a simple right mouse double click?

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Hi John,

Yes, I am seeing a use_pdf_in_dark_mode.txt file appear on my desktop, when doing a right mouse double click in the toolbar (accidentally). And in line with the commentary I have been simply deleting them. I was hoping to be able to make the issue go away. I have stuck with v6. Maybe I am not getting ‘service release’ updates. I am in New Zealand.

Thanks, John

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Hi -

The fix went into 6.24 and the current version is 6.35. Either check for updates in the Rhino Options dialog box or download the current version from the website.
-wim

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Thanks Wim, That appears to have sorted it out