Button Tab in the Layered Button Inspector
The Button tab in the Layered Button Inspector contains settings that allow you to
customize the selected button.
• Navigation: This area lets you set the actions that take place when the viewer uses the
arrow buttons on the DVD player’s remote control to navigate around the title. Because
this is the typical way the title will be viewed, it is important to spend some time
configuring the navigation in a logical, predictable way. See
Configuring Button
Navigation
for information.
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• Angle/Audio/Subtitle Streams: Use these three pop-up menus to connect a button to
specific audio, subtitle, and angle streams to play back. For the subtitle stream, you
can also choose whether subtitles should appear.
• Auto Action: If you enable Auto Action for a button, it activates automatically as soon
as it is navigated to, without the viewer needing to press Enter. This is useful in menus,
such as scene selection menus, in which you use Next and Previous buttons; you can
assume that if viewers navigate to the Next or Previous button, they want to activate
it.
Note: With overlay-based buttons, if you select this option, only the activated color
mapping appears when the button is navigated to, skipping the selected color mapping.
• Invisible: Applies to overlay-based buttons. Allows you to have a button that does not
display highlights in the normal, selected, or activated state. This is useful when you
want to have a menu with text and no visible buttons. The text could tell the viewer
to press the Enter button to go to the next menu or start playback (or whatever the
button is set to jump to).
• Highlight: Applies to overlay-based buttons. Allows you to choose the color mapping
set to assign to this button.
• Coordinates & Size: This area lets you set the location of each edge of the button’s active
area, plus the area’s height and width. The upper-left corner of the menu is at pixel 0,
line 0. You can enter values for each edge, allowing you to precisely position and size
the button’s active area. (You can also drag the active area and each of its edges with
the pointer.)
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