Controlling which button gets focus when arrow keys are pressed

[kojow7]

Heya,

I am using GUIforDVDAuthor, but am open to recommendations if another program can do it. What I want to do is when a button has focus, if I press the right/left/up/or down arrows I can control which is the next button to get focus depending on direction. Any way to do this?

Thanks,

Kevin

[blutach]

Easiest is PgcEdit's menu editor. Simply set the adjacent buttons with the slider.

Regards

[kojow7]

Yeah, the reason I'm asking is I've seen a commercial dvd that has a hidden button that can only be accessed by pressing the left arrow, but not the right. I am hoping to do the same thing. Thanks for the info on PgcEdit I hope it does that.

Thanks for your help.

-Kevin

[guns1inger]

DVD Lab Pro can do this. Just turn off the auto function and assign button order manually.

[GeorgeW]

I used DVDLab Pro to do that recently. I had it count the number of times the right-arrow was pressed, and after a certain number of times, a new menu appeared.

But as blutach mentioned, easiest method on an already-authored DVD is something like PGCedit (or even DVDRemake or MenuEdit).

Regards,
George

[Alex_ander]

...or even DVDRemake ...

...right-click on button =>'edit button' => type adjacent button numbers.

[usually_quiet]

PgcEdit does allow you to add buttons to a menu. If such buttons don't overlap an ordinary button already present in the menu, they would not be visible, even when they have the focus.

[borax]

You can do it in GfD too, if you edit the control file (author.xml if dvdauthor is used as authoring engine, or muxman.mxp in coas of muxman). Just set a tag in the default project settings at 'Edit author.xml file before DVD creation process'.