Menu button design

Norgelagger wrote on 10/20/2011, 2:11 PM

I'm having a heck of a time trying to design a menu button to include a photo...I figured out how to replace the button mask with a photo and that works, but if I try to assign a button style from the menu, and then add a photo, the mask on the button turns the image transparent, and the photo overlaps the button frame....I'm lost...does anyone know the proper way to design a button and make the neccessary adjustments so you can show the photo in the button frame, without it overlapping and being transparent?

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Steve Grisetti wrote on 10/20/2011, 3:03 PM

In your Button Properties you'll see a listing for both the image and the mask. A frame must be a transparent file, like a PNG, and you must use a mask if it's shape is other than square.

I walk you through the steps to create custom buttons and button frames in my book (on Amazon), if you're interested.

Norgelagger wrote on 10/20/2011, 4:00 PM

Thank you Steve...I also have another problem...In my project, when I look at my menu buttons using the Navigation tool, it shows the direction arrows for the order in which the up, down, right, left DVD remote control pick buttons should activate each of the next menu buttons, but when I burn my DVD and play it back on TV, it goes to the main menu page, but my DVD remote control pick buttons don't work....I have no way to navigate from one menu button to the next....Do you know how do I solve this problem?

Steve Grisetti wrote on 10/21/2011, 7:11 AM

It could be an issue with how your DVD player reads home-burned discs. Sometimes they don't behave well.

There's certainly nothing that can be done at the software level.

Try putting the DVD in your computer's disc drive and letting it autolaunch your DVD player software. Chances are it will work just fine.

I always recommend using a good, quality DVD disc for burning. Verbatims are great; Memorex are awful. And then burning at no faster than half the rated speed of the disc. (8x, for instance.)

It may not solve all of these kinds of problems. Some disc players just don't play well with home-burneds. But it will increase the odds of a good, solid burn.