I produced a version 1 DVD with buttons arranged in a specific fashion for its Scene Selection menu that spreads over three pages. From page 1 I then exported its scene select menu as a user-theme.
Now I wanted to create a version 2 DVD having different media but same button appearance and layout. So I create a new DVDA project, load in the new media file (and chapter markers), get it to make a scene selection menu which once again spreads over three pages.
Now I drag the user-theme I created over page 1 and it looks ok. I try the same thing with page 2 and .. to my horror the items end up with the same text labels as page 1. It seems the theme has not only changed the general appearance like I wanted but also it has overwritten the text labels. This is not like a Style Sheet concept in a word processing application etc.
This surely limits the usefulness of the Themes concept, or is there some trick I am missing?
In the hope of a work-around, even if a cumbersome one, I read up on Themes, unzipped mine and edited the XML. I tried deleting the <TEXT>...</TEXT> entries in the XML file, where the text labels are defined. I saved it (and the other 2 files associated with it to a zip archive renamed to have a ".thm" extension. Instead of leaving the text alone as I hoped, it had the effect of making all the item text labels blank.
Is there any solution to this? Maybe it's better not to use Themes at all and just resize and reposition the buttons every time I make a new version of the same DVD? Ideally want a dialog when applying Themes to allow enable/disable (check-box) of each kind of thing the theme, to overwrite or leave alone each corresponding thing in the current DVDA project.
The following thread from a previous year seems related:
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=22&MessageID=525040
Now I wanted to create a version 2 DVD having different media but same button appearance and layout. So I create a new DVDA project, load in the new media file (and chapter markers), get it to make a scene selection menu which once again spreads over three pages.
Now I drag the user-theme I created over page 1 and it looks ok. I try the same thing with page 2 and .. to my horror the items end up with the same text labels as page 1. It seems the theme has not only changed the general appearance like I wanted but also it has overwritten the text labels. This is not like a Style Sheet concept in a word processing application etc.
This surely limits the usefulness of the Themes concept, or is there some trick I am missing?
In the hope of a work-around, even if a cumbersome one, I read up on Themes, unzipped mine and edited the XML. I tried deleting the <TEXT>...</TEXT> entries in the XML file, where the text labels are defined. I saved it (and the other 2 files associated with it to a zip archive renamed to have a ".thm" extension. Instead of leaving the text alone as I hoped, it had the effect of making all the item text labels blank.
Is there any solution to this? Maybe it's better not to use Themes at all and just resize and reposition the buttons every time I make a new version of the same DVD? Ideally want a dialog when applying Themes to allow enable/disable (check-box) of each kind of thing the theme, to overwrite or leave alone each corresponding thing in the current DVDA project.
The following thread from a previous year seems related:
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=22&MessageID=525040