Clearer menu designs. . .

WayneM wrote on 3/15/2009, 5:46 PM

BTW, is it just me or does it seem the ways to highlight a menu item before selection are still as primitive in this version as they were years ago. The highlight mask kinda does the opposite of what I want it to do. When a clip is selected I'd like the picture to be clear and be transparent or otherwise not "pop" puit so brightly. Also, why is there only a single underline option? Why not a rectangle that surrounds the text and the thunbnail?

I'm probably just missing something here, but that part of DVDA still seems relatively primitive unless I want to get into a lot of work building masks, etc.

Thanks for any suggestions!

Wayne

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Steve Grisetti wrote on 3/15/2009, 6:11 PM

These options are both pretty easy to implement by creating a custom color set for your highlight and/or creating a custom highlight image.

WayneM wrote on 3/15/2009, 8:22 PM

Thanks again Steve. I'm track down the custom color set and highlight image and play around with it or track down a tutorial.

bStro wrote on 3/16/2009, 7:06 AM

Here you go:

Custom Highlight Masks

Rob

SuiteD wrote on 4/15/2009, 3:38 AM

Rob,

Nicely explained...thanks.

bStro wrote on 4/15/2009, 8:17 AM

When a clip is selected I'd like the picture to be clear and be transparent or otherwise not "pop" puit so brightly.

If I'm understanding you correctly (I don't think I did the first time this was posted), all you have to do is go to the Menu Page Properties window, change Selected Button Colors to None (all transparent) and change Inactive Button Colors to the color set of your choice. Then the currently selected item will be "clear," and the other items will be obscured by color.

If that's not what you want, I guess I don't understand what you do. ;)

The default highlight "does the opposite of what you want" because it's doing what most people expect: For the currently selected item to be highlighted with a color. This is how most DVDs menu are.

Rob