Making a menu without using Layered Menus

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Making a menu without using Layered Menus

OK, here is the situation.

The menu shows a picture of a kitchen.

The Client, being a Housing company, wants to be able to select different portions of the room, ie, benchtop, sink, stove. The selection will shade the item the user has specified and when activated will enter another menu.

some screenshots can be seen here and here

The question, can this be achieved without using layered menus?

Thanks heaps guys...

PowerMac 400, Mac OS X (10.4.3), 1 gig RAM, 100 gig HDD,

Posted on Mar 15, 2006 5:10 PM

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Answer 1

Houghts

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Mar 15, 2006 6:25 PM in response to Simon Mac

Hi There Simon
Hope you enjoyed Ron Barassi walking on water last night : )
If you are not having continuous audio running underneath the menu, and if the shot of the room is a still image, just make the highlighted button target another menu which is the closer view of the selected item. Or better still you could create a shot 'zoom in' effect to take you into the next menu.
Basically, layered menus in DVDSP get broken up into standard sub-menus, the same way you would create manually and personally I prefer to do it manually as it's easier to change single elements.
Hope that helps.
Good luck
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Answer 2

Simon Mac Author

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Mar 15, 2006 7:04 PM in response to Houghts

Thanks for replying.

The idea was more for having the elements (benchtops etc) highlighted when the user is selecting (up and down, left and right buttons on the remote).

I'm used to using normal overlays for button highlighting. Is there a way to assign different actions for the left, right, up and down buttons (assign them to activate a button to go to a different menu)?

Thanks

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Houghts

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Mar 15, 2006 7:15 PM in response to Simon Mac

In the button inspector there's a little box called 'Auto-action' in the Advanced tab under Function. With this box checked the button will jump to its target as soon as it is selected.
Cheers
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Answer 4

Jay Mein

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Apr 18, 2006 5:59 AM in response to Houghts

The auto action doesn't work on a layered menu. Thanks for that apple, don't see the point of putting it on the program if it doesn't work...

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