Setting a Button’s Connection
The main purpose of a button is to provide a way for the viewer to jump to a new disc
location. For this to work, you must assign an element from your project as the button’s
connection.
There are several ways to set a button’s connection:
• Using the Target setting in the Button Inspector
• Using the shortcut menu that appears when you Control-click a button
• Using the Connections tab. See
Establishing Connections
for more information.
In some cases, when using the dragging methods to add assets to a menu and selecting
options from the Drop Palette, the connection is automatically set. See
Dragging Assets
to the Menu Editor
for more information.
You can see a button’s current connection by placing the pointer over it and reading the
tooltip that appears.
To set a button’s connection in the Button Inspector
1
Select the button whose connection you want to set.
2
Choose the element to connect to from the Target pop-up menu in the top section of
the Button Inspector.
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To set a button’s connection using the shortcut menu
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Control-click the button whose connection you want to set, choose Target from the
shortcut menu, then choose the element to connect to from the submenus.
A checkmark appears next to the currently selected target.
Those elements that can have a pre-script assigned to them (menus, tracks, stories, and
slideshows) are listed in square brackets. Setting a button’s target to the element in
brackets allows the pre-script, if one is assigned to the element, to run before the element
appears. If you set the target to anything else in the list, the pre-script is not run. See
Pre-Scripts
for more information.
About Resume
If you jump to a menu while watching a track, for example, by pressing the remote
control’s Menu button, the DVD player remembers what track you were playing and
how far you were into it.
A mostly unknown feature of DVD players is that you can press the Menu button while
in a menu to resume playing the track at the same place you jumped from.
Creating a button on the menu and setting its Target to Resume provides the viewer
with a more obvious way to resume playing the track.