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awesomer
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Post Posted: Mar 19, 2008 04:50 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
So, pretty much, I want to do the stuff talked about in this thread, only with DVDAuthorGUI. A few weeks ago, I tried using xml output from DVDStyler with DAG's xml editing option, but it didn't work. I looked about online and found something that made it look like DVDStyler was switching ID for NAME (or the other way around, I can't remember) in a kind of sort of proprietary sort of deal. Idano. All I know is I switched the tag to the other one and DVDAuthorGUI still didn't complete the processing. Somethine about not finding a button or something, even though I had done did gave a button the name it was complaining about. Anyhoo, I guess I should be asking:

What is the proper XML code to tell DVDAuthorGUI what I want my DVD to do when I press a certain remote control button?


If you need an example, say I have some "highlights" (to keep the word "button" in remote control context only) arranged vertically on a menu. Say also, that I want to press "right" on my remote and have the selected highlight go left.

To get more advanced (I guess), let's say I wanted to press a number on my remote and have some appropriate highlight selected or a secret video to play.

And, I suppose more advanceder, what if I wanted to control the angle, zoom, or rewind buttons (like maybe to disable them)?

Right now, I'm interested in controlling the directional buttons, but if someone knows how to do the other things, I'm sure this thread would help someone else in the future.

awesomer
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Post Posted: Mar 20, 2008 23:33 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Hi, self, how's it going? Here's the error I mentioned:


Code:
STAT: Processing C:\dvddir\menusub2.mpg...
ERR:  Cannot find button '1' as referenced by the subtitle

Process aborted due to above error
There was an unknown error.  Please review the log for more information.


All I did was add

Code:
name="blahblah"


inside the button tags like the DVDAuthor online manual thing said to do. What gives?

borax
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Post Posted: Mar 21, 2008 17:53 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Please post the full xml file for both spumux and dvdauthor. Then I can probably help you. AFAIK, DVDAuthorGUI doesn't name the buttons. But the naming has to be the same for both spumux and dvdauthor.
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awesomer
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Post Posted: May 09, 2008 20:18 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Where is the spumux file?

borax wrote:
Please post the full xml file for both spumux and dvdauthor. Then I can probably help you. AFAIK, DVDAuthorGUI doesn't name the buttons. But the naming has to be the same for both spumux and dvdauthor.


borax
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Post Posted: May 10, 2008 09:41 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Actually I don't know where dvdauthorgui creates its (temp-)files. Probably in the same folder as where the author.xml file is (which you have changed, therefore you should know where it is...). AFAIK dvdauthorgui creates a big batch file for the whole process. In this file you should also find the locations for the control files (author.xml, spumux.xml...). But it could be that these files are automatically deleted after the authoring step.
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awesomer
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Post Posted: Jul 06, 2008 06:22 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
DVDAGUI has a thing you can check to edit the xml before authoring, so wherever it keeps the files is hidden unless I'm a smarty pants and looked around. smile.gif

Anyhoo, here's a file I found in the program's directory called menu2.xml. It might be what you are asking for maybe.

Quote:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<subpictures>
<stream>
<spu start="00:00:00.0" end="00:00:00.0"
highlight="C:\Program Files\DVDAuthorGUI\highlight2.png"
select="C:\Program Files\DVDAuthorGUI\select2.png"
transparent="010101" force="yes"
autoorder="rows">
<button x0="146" y0="64" x1="183" y1="93"/>
<button x0="100" y0="140" x1="137" y1="169"/>
<button x0="95" y0="224" x1="132" y1="253"/>
<button x0="137" y0="296" x1="174" y1="325"/>
<button x0="248" y0="367" x1="285" y1="396"/>
<button x0="362" y0="365" x1="399" y1="394"/>
<button x0="490" y0="304" x1="527" y1="333"/>
<button x0="575" y0="212" x1="612" y1="241"/>
<button x0="555" y0="140" x1="592" y1="169"/>
<button x0="491" y0="59" x1="528" y1="88"/>
<button x0="378" y0="35" x1="415" y1="64"/>
<button x0="258" y0="35" x1="295" y1="64"/>
</spu>
</stream>
</subpictures>



edit:

I went and tried editing the menu xml's, but DAG just overwrites my changes. I tried pasting the edited "<subpicture>" stuff into the config.xml (the xml file the you can edit before authoring), but DAG seemed to ignore it. I can give the buttons names in config.xml, but I get:
Quote:
ERR: Cannot find button '1' as referenced by the subtitle


I even tried "name="1". That worked, but why bother. It also won't let you put right= left=, etc. in the button tags on config.xml

Quote:
ERR: Cannot match attribute 'right' in tag 'button'. Valid attributes are:
ERR: name


I'm starting to think that it's impossible to do custom button navigation in DVDAuthorGUI.

borax
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Post Posted: Jul 06, 2008 10:30 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
At least, it is very cumbersome. Using pgcedit afterwards is probably easier in this case.
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GTRBudda
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Post Posted: Jul 06, 2008 11:30 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Turning off DVDAuthorGUI and running the process.bat file directly makes things easier for me. The way I work it is, after DAG does the "heavy lifting" for me, I turn on "Edit XML before Authoring", hit the big "author DVD" button, close the XML editor and answer Yes to save and No to proceed, then save the project file (the dva, just in case...) and close DAG. All the XML files and the process.bat file are left in the DAG folder, ready for the tweaking smile.gif The only drawback is there's no "clean-up" afterwards. I keep my project files anyway, so not really a drawback for me.
If that doesn't help, I'll sit down and be quiet biggrin.gif

awesomer
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Post Posted: Jul 06, 2008 13:25 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
GTRBudda wrote:
Turning off DVDAuthorGUI and running the process.bat file directly makes things easier for me. The way I work it is, after DAG does the "heavy lifting" for me, I turn on "Edit XML before Authoring", hit the big "author DVD" button, close the XML editor and answer Yes to save and No to proceed, then save the project file (the dva, just in case...) and close DAG. All the XML files and the process.bat file are left in the DAG folder, ready for the tweaking smile.gif The only drawback is there's no "clean-up" afterwards. I keep my project files anyway, so not really a drawback for me.
If that doesn't help, I'll sit down and be quiet biggrin.gif


That did it! WOOO! icon_salut.gif

I tried the pgcedit thing borax suggested before you posted and that worked, too. It was pretty easy to dig through and find the thing that looked like button controls and edit them. Nice and graphically, too. And, it didn't need installing, which is super beans in my book.

But, what I really wanted to do was get the DAG method working, and you came up with it. I did what you said with DAG and then ran the process.bat. Turns out you don't get a log that way, so errors are impossible to track down unless you have some way to keep the DOS window from closing. It also turns out that you gotta put the name tags in both the menu file and the config file or it doesn't work. I just guessed that that was the problem since that darn window kept closing, and it worked. yay! laugh.gif

Thankums all around!

Now, new problem, how to keep the highlight from jumping back to the first button when the background animation loops. lightbulb.gif

Midzuki
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Post Posted: Jul 06, 2008 14:27 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
awesomer wrote:

Quote:
so errors are impossible to track down unless you have some way to
keep the DOS window from closing.


Open a CMD.exe window and then run the file 'process.bat'.
Don't be afraid of the command-line! laugh.gif

borax
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Post Posted: Jul 07, 2008 01:41 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
...how to keep the highlight from jumping back to the first button when the background animation loops.

How is the loop defined?
Usually, if you use the command: jump cell 1;
the highlight is not reset.
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awesomer
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Post Posted: Jul 07, 2008 01:53 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
borax wrote:

How is the loop defined?
Usually, if you use the command: jump cell 1;
the highlight is not reset.


DAG does a

<post> jump menu 1; </post>

borax
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Post Posted: Jul 07, 2008 04:38 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
So try the jump cell 1; command biggrin.gif
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awesomer
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Post Posted: Jul 26, 2008 04:26 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
borax wrote:
So try the jump cell 1; command biggrin.gif


It totally worked! YAY! Thanks! punk.gif jump.gif fun.gif

Okay, so in another 7 months, I'll come back and ask about controlling the OTHER buttons on the remote. wink.gif

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