Changing highlighted button order

When you go to a button either with an end jump or with another button, DVDSP allows you to select which button is to be highlighted in the Inspector.

If you mean initially, as opposed to jumping from some other element, in the Inspector on the Menu tab, choose a button from the Default Button pop-up menu. This button is highlighted in the absence of a direct jump to a button from elsewhere.

Here's the way I do it. There may be another way as well. If you click, "Simulate" and the 1st highlighted button is NOT at the top or it is NOT the FIRST button you want Highlighted when someone puts the DVD in a DVD player, remember which button is the first highlighted button (regardless of the button name) and EXIT "Simulate." Then, go to the "Menu" screen, drag and move the button that was FIRST highlighted when you were in "Simulate." Move it to the top or wherever you want it on the screen. Now you have to rename the button(s), reset each Target for the buttons and in Graphical view re-assign the End Jumps again. Now when you view "Simulate" again, the button you want highlighted 1st should be highlighted 1st. If you click the arrows while in Simulate, but they are highlighting OUT OF ORDER, go to the "Menu" screen, click the "Settings" button near the top right and select "Auto Assign Buttons Now." When you Simulate again, the buttons should highlight in the proper order. Up, down, left and right. If they still don't go in the order you want, Fix each button manually by highlighting a button on the MENU screen and adjusting the "Navigation" drop-downs in the Inspector's "Advanced" Tab. Save the project when all is corrected.

I hope this is helpful and didn't confuse you more 🙂

Dave


this could not be simpler:


to change the button order
right click or control click the button

the shortcut menu appears

select either, send forward or send backward as required to rearrange the button order

Gary-

Unless I'm missing something big time, in iDVD '08, there is not shortcut menu that appears when you control click a button.

Anyone else have an easier way to do this? To clarify, how do I order the buttons (different movies) so when I scroll through when it is on my DVD player, it will scroll in the order I want, not the order they were added? They appear on the front screen in the correct order but the scrolling jumps around when I play it on a DVD player. (It seems that they are not always even in the order added, iDVD makes up its own random order!)

although i may not be able to help, as i am a litle confused by your question, are you working in iDVD or DVD studio pro?

this is the DVDSP forum, questions posted here are answered on the basis that they are using DVDSP

if you are using iDVD, post your queries in the correct forum:


http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1196

Dave - unless I have misunderstood, click on the menu and look in the property inspector under the menu tab. Use the top dropdown item called 'Default' and select the button that you want to be highlighted as the default button for the menu. Every time you come to the menu, that button will be in the selected state.

Or did you want to achieve something else?