Floating arrows

Godfrey wrote on 2/22/2011, 9:12 AM

How do you achieve opening up a new arrow or bullet next to an image or text as the mouse moves from one button to another? I cannot find that in the index. It is probably called something else but the effect is to cancel out the previous arrow as the mouse moves around the menu page. Thanks

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Steve Grisetti wrote on 2/22/2011, 9:18 AM

That would be a custom highlight shape, Godfrey.

Many DVD authoring programs use them alongside a button or text, as you're describing.

DVD Architect (at least the Studio version) uses overlays instead -- a block or shape of color that overlays your bullet or text.

That makes it rather difficult to create the kinds of button highlights you're describing unfortunately. You can do it -- but it takes a lot of fudging.

Godfrey wrote on 2/22/2011, 11:23 AM

Thanks Steve

Then what is the purpose of all those arrows in the button library? I thought that was why they are there (!) - or are they simply to act as buttons rather than as pointers that can turn on and off as the mouse passes over them?

Surely any of the buttons or bullets provided by DVDA can do more than simply act as static buttons rather than fade in an out as the navigator goes from one to the other.

Steve Grisetti wrote on 2/23/2011, 5:42 AM

Those are button shapes.

They're for adding buttons for, say, going to the next page of a menu or going back a page, etc.

But the highlights that DVD Architect uses are overlays that appear either on top of, underlining or around your buttons -- not bullets that appear alongside them.

Sorry.