Help With Button Highlighting

Andy_L wrote on 9/10/2009, 4:06 PM

Using DVD Architect Pro. I'm having a terrible time getting button highlighting to work the way I'd like. Ideally I'd just like a simple graphic or icon to appear to the left of a text area when it is in focus/highlighted. There doesn't seem to be any simple way to do this in DVDA, so I'd settle for just a border around the text, but that doesn't work.

I can't get a border to appear.

Even the underline is vexing me. I can't control its width, or it's position relative to text.

Any help or encouragement would be appreciated.

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bStro wrote on 9/10/2009, 4:37 PM

There's no "simple" way to do it because that's not generally how DVD menu highlights work. Highlights are basic shapes of color placed over the menu background, not graphics or icons. There is a method to fake what you want -- commonly called inverse selection. I wrote a tutorial on how to do this if you'd like to take a look:

Full Color DVD Menu Highlights

For a "border" highlight, you need to create your own highlight mask. You can do individual buttons -- which is covered in the manual / online help -- or create a single custom highlight mask that defines all of the menu's buttons in one image. I have a tutorial for that, too.

Custom Highlight Masks

As for underline highlights, the size of the underline is determined by the bounding box around the text, not the text it self. To get a different width, change the size of the box. If you have a thumbnail in addition to the text, the underline will be the length of whichever one is wider.

Rob

Andy_L wrote on 9/11/2009, 7:47 AM

Thanks for the links!

I wish DVDA made it possible to one-click some of these tasks for casual jobs, rather than forcing users to go through the mask creation process, but I guess it is what it is. :)