Default Button

Streetdog wrote on 6/28/2004, 1:13 PM

Another question...

Is there a way to define the default button on a menu? Better yet, is there a way of not having one?

I have 4 buttons that point to the same movie but they activate different audio and subtitles tracks.
Is there a way of DVDA remeber the last pressed button? I want the last used button to be highlighted when the movie ends or when i press "menu".

Any clue?

Comments

SonySDB wrote on 6/29/2004, 5:36 AM

The default button is the first button in button order. To change the button order, drag and drop buttons in the project overview window. There is no way of not having a default button.

Instead of having 4 buttons which link to the same title, you'll want to make 4 buttons which link to 4 different titles with the same video, audio and subtitle tracks. (DVDA is smart enough to only put the context on the disc once, if two titles' video, audio, and subtitle tracks are identical. The easiest way to make identical is to use copy and paste.) You can then have a different end actions and menu button actions for each title which could specify a different destination button. In that way, the DVD would act as though it remembered the last button pressed.

Streetdog wrote on 6/29/2004, 9:37 AM

Fair enough.
I'm amazed with DVDA!
Most of my problems were due to the fact that i was used to encore, once i got used to DVDA things were a lot easier.
I love the firewire preview!
Great program. Oh, and great forum too! Thanks for all the help guys!!

Cooldraft wrote on 7/14/2004, 5:17 AM

So, if I created a temo project with empty buttons to test a DVD design before the mpg was complete, I had to delete the empty button to add the agtual mp3, now I can not get that button to highlight automatically, I even went to order the buttons in the edit menu. Do I have to delete the test buttons and start over?

bStro wrote on 7/14/2004, 9:22 AM

For each video, double-click its button on the menu or its name in the Project Overview window and edit its End Action section. Set the Command to "Link", the Destination to the name of your menu ("return to recent menu" isn't enough), and change Destination Button to the button you want selected when the movie ends. I don't know if this works the same way if the viewer presses the Menu button.

Rob

bStro wrote on 7/14/2004, 9:27 AM

You don't have to delete an empty button in order to add media to it. Just drag your media into the Project Overview window and drop it on the root item (the disc icon). Then double-click your empty button and change its Destination setting (Action section of the Properties window) to the name of your media.

Rob