Menu Creation (in DVD-lab)?

[Jiglet]

I read the whole help file included with this wonderful program, and have only had trouble with one thing so far. On my menu, I have two objects that you can select, and I want an image to appear next the object that is currently selected. So technically you'd be selecting the image rather than the object itself. In this case the image is a beer bong, and I made it so that they are both "Invisible Normal", so you'd think they'd appear when selected. But the result is really only a sillhoute (sp?) of the image appearing when selected, rather than the image itself. Any idea why and what I can do to fix this? Attached is a series of screen shots that might explain my problem, the last of the 3 is what it looks like when the object is selected. I just want the image to appear next to the selections, like a cursor.

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[reboot]

What you want is a type of switched menu.
Look here: http://www.mediachance.com/dvdlab/tutorial/switchmenu.html

[guns1inger]

The reason you cant do this is that the bit depth for a highlight allows for only a single colour - hence the silloutte effect you are getting. Switched menus will give you the visual appearance you are after, however if you try to highlight over these images, you will still get a silloutte.

[Jiglet]

Okay, I followed the tutorial and think I understand what I'm doing now... But when I have a link with auto action enabled, and I go into simulation mode (with follow links enabled), and I navigate to that link, should it navigate to the menu that the link is connected to? Because it isn't - But I'm pretty sure I did everything right.

[reboot]

Post a screen of your connections.
Trace them to see if they actually go where you expect them to.
Autoaction will not work in preview mode.
Compile the dvd, and try it.

[housepig]

and for faster check, compile with dummy movies instead of the full video.

[Jiglet]

[reboot]

The connections look fine. Have you compiled it to see?

[Jiglet]

Yeah, I just figured out how to do that, using IMGtool and Daemon Tools. I played the DVD in Windows Media Player. However I can't tell if it works or not - Does Windows Media Player allow you to use the up and down keys on the keyboard to make menu selections? If so, then this is not working. Hovering my pointer over the links doesn't do anything, either.

[reboot]

Just compile the dvd in dvdlab. This produces the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders.
Have you got WinDVD, or PowerDVD?
Use those to view it. You can then use the mouse on the menu onscreen, as if it were your remote.
WMP doesn't do diddly, or at least I wouldn't trust it to play anything.
Simply select "open, dvd from folder" or something like that, then browse to the root folder.
eg. You have a folder called TEMP, and inside TEMP are the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders.
Browse to the TEMP folder, and click OK. (Works in WinDVD 5 and 6).