How to change the default thumbnail size

caprichoso wrote on 11/20/2004, 8:54 AM

With DVD Architect 2.0 I find the scene selection menu buttons to be too small. I tried changing the size of a single button, but then the button was larger than the include thumbnail.

Is there a way to:

1. Change the default size, so that all subsequenct scene selection menus will use the new size
2. Ensure that the included thumbnails match this larger button size

Thanks!

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johnmeyer wrote on 11/20/2004, 9:52 AM

I edited the "default.xml" file for the theme I wanted to change. This is found in the "_themes" folder (NOT the "themes" folder without the underscore). To to the theme you want to change, make a backup copy of the default.xml file, and then edit the default.xml file with Notepad. It's a little geeky, but if you've done any HTML work, it will be pretty obviousl what to do. Even if you haven't, you'll find the settings correspond to what you set in the user interface.

In my case, I didn't want to have any image icons at all (I've noticed that these are seldom used in professional DVDs, and they usually just get in the way of your user figuring out what button to press, IMHO). To do this I changed:

<SHOWIMAGE>true</SHOWIMAGE>

to

<SHOWIMAGE>false</SHOWIMAGE>

in the Item Button section.

caprichoso wrote on 11/21/2004, 10:28 AM

The only thing I found in the default.xml file which seemed to relate was:

NAME>Sony Theme Layout</NAME>
- <GRID>
<TITLE>0.10, 0.17, 0.90, 0.30</TITLE>
- <SETTINGS>
<MAX-PER-PAGE>6</MAX-PER-PAGE>
<MARGIN>0.12, 0.35, 0.88, 0.75</MARGIN>
<ORIENTATION>horizontal</ORIENTATION>
<ITEMSPACE>0.02, 0.01</ITEMSPACE>
<BLOCK-HALIGN>center</BLOCK-HALIGN>
<BLOCK-VALIGN>top</BLOCK-VALIGN>
</SETTINGS>

I'm unsure which relates to thumbnail size, and how ....

Dave