Play All button driving me crazy

[p-pa]

Using 2.0.2114.38363

making a DVD with 21 titles. got them all aranged on the menu screen, then I hit "Play All" and get a button which appears to be ZERO width.

Below is what I think is the bad part of the .S2D file. I blindly tweaked some of the numbers [DSOffsetWidth="111" DSOffsetHeight="33"] no apparent help.

Can CB edit for me so I can paste it into the S2D file, open the project and
move it where I want it ?

What should I do next time to avoid this problem ?

PS - when I save the default PlayAll text to the registry it often, but not always, is gone the next time I open S2D.

PS - had similar problem long ago with a much earlier version.

TIA P-PA


</TitleSet>
<DVDMenu TVStandard="NTSC" Normal="-16777088" Highlight="-65536" Active="-16711681" ShowPlayAllButton="True" DSOffsetWidth="111" DSOffsetHeight="33" DSColor="0" DSOnOff="True" BackgroundImagePath="C:\0u\yellow.bmp" AudioPath="">
<PlayAllButton X1="120" Y1="40" X2="120" Y2="56" FontFamily="Microsoft Sans Serif" FontSize="8.25" FontStyle="0">
</PlayAllButton>
</DVDMenu>
</DVDStructure>
<Settings>
<General InitialAssetFolder="C:\0u" InitialDVDFolder="D:\0u" InitialProjectFolder="C:\0u" DeleteS2DFiles="False" UseDVDShrink="False" />
<Menu AudioEncoding="Custom_mpa" DefaultCustomAudioPath="" DefaultCustomImagePath="" TVStandard="NTSC" FontFamily="Tahoma" FontSize="20.25" FontStyle="3" PlayAllText="Select This to Play All 21 Titles" Loop="False" EncodeVideo2AudioDuration="False" />

[p-pa]

CB - I don't need you to provide fixed up S2D text for me, hacked it out
myself.

I would like to know how to avoid this in the future though.

Must the PlayAll button be pushed first ? That is what I did to an earlier revision of the S2D file, then replaced the sick part in the final S2D file
with the good stuff from the working one.

Also, thoughts on disappearing default text would be wlelcome.

Cheers, P-PA

[ChrissyBoy]

I shall investigate. Nothing should be dissapearing!

[p-pa]

Thanks CB.

While you are hunting for things that disappear you should know that in this project there's another thing that disappeared,
i.e. some of the strings of title text on the Menu.

Below is the scenario within which the default PlayAll button and some of the text lines in the menu disappeared.

When creating a 21 title DVD like this it is my wont to frequently save project files so as to be able to recover from any problems,
be they PEBKAC or S2D funnies.

I added say 10 titles, then saved to an S2D file, call it "A.S2D".
Add a few more, save to B.S2D. Etc. to C.S2D, - then, when I had defined all 21 VTSs and their menu names, went to Menu mode and moved the title text around on the Menu, changing it's size, making it into 2 columns etc - sometimes staying in the program, sometimes saving to F.S2D, G.S2D etc and exiting out and restarting by double-clicking on the highest lettered S2D file.

At one point, after having 21 titles I suddenly had less [between C and D] - about 16 as I recall. 5 text strings had disappeared from the visible
Menu - everything was still defined if I went back to MOVIE, and they were still in the S2D file as viewed by Notepad, although
with coordinates that caused them to not display I suspect.

*Then* I hit the PlayAll button and it showed up as what I called "zero width".

Went to settings and changed the default PlayAll text to "Select to Play all Titles" or similar, saved to the registry, went back to Menu mode,
hit PlayAll - no joy, just saw a little "grey tower with white windows" which was supposed to contain "Select to Play all Titles" and was obvious zero width.
Hitting PlayAll at this point just toggles the grey tower on and off, going to setup and finding the P-A text empty, filling it in again and trying Menu P-A again, no help.

A final note, this time about Win XP - if you use the Search function in Win Explorer and search for text in S2D files it never finds it - if you rename them
to .TXT files, the text is found.

A final final note - in dinking around to present this accurately I found I could fairly easily destroy the menu with no choice to "backup" - such a choice would be most welcome. Also, I suspect it's possible to cause S2D to somehow define menu text positions outside the menu area - detecting such requests and not allowing them would be cool.

Cheers, P-PA

[p-pa]

Clarification to above where I said:

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A final final note - in dinking around to present this accurately I found I could fairly easily destroy the menu with no choice to "backup" - such a choice would be most welcome. Also, I suspect it's possible to cause S2D to somehow define menu text positions outside the menu area - detecting such requests and not allowing them would be cool.
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These problems happen when one hits the wrong toolbar button at the wrong time - not by dragging stuff to a bad position. The upper left buttons seem to be especially dangerous. The only way I could learn about the buttons is to play with them - sometimes with disasterous results.

Cheers, P-PA

[vicchiollo]

I have found the same issues in this thread with a recent DVD project I was working on. I built a DVD with 4 titles and a menu. Saved the project. Later, I reopened the project by double clicking the project file icon and tried to add a "Play All" button. An empty button appears.

I checked the configuration settings for the Play All button and found nothing listed in the text box for that setting. I added the words "Play All" to the text box and selected Save as Default (also tried Save for current project only.)

Went back to the menu and tried adding the Play All button again. Same thing, an empty button appears. Checking the configuration settings again for the Play All option, and the text box was empty again.

If I close the project and open SVCD2DVD with the application icon, the configuration settings for the Play All button are there. If I go to the menu tab and add a Play All button, a correct Play All button is added. So the problem seems to exist only if I am working on a saved project, not a new project.

On a similar note, I have noticed the when adding a Play All button that it seems to become "disconnected" from the project after saving the project.
Here is the scenerio -

1. I create a project with multiple titles and a menu button for each title.
2. I add a Play All button.
3. I save the project and close it.
4. Later, I reopen the project and go to the menu tab.
5. If I click the Reset button, all the buttons get reset except the Play All button.
6. If I click the Play All button on the menu tab, another Play All button is added to the DVD menu and the old one seems "disconnected" from the project.

[ChrissyBoy]

Guys, i am working on this and indeed have solved a few of the issues. I will have a build to test soon.

[p-pa]

Guys, i am working on this and indeed have solved a few of the issues. I will have a build to test soon.

There's a willing tester in New Jersey awaiting notice when it's ready.

TIA CB,

P-PA

[ChrissyBoy]

Done. Drop me an email guys.

[vicchiollo]

The new build is working great. All the issues I listed are now working great. Thanks a ton for all your hard work and especially your prompt attention to issues discussed in the forums.

[Danja]

Is there a way to delete buttons?? The trash can is not displayed when on the menu screen.

[ChrissyBoy]

You get one button per TitleSet. To delete a button - delete its TitleSet.

[Danja]

You get one button per TitleSet. To delete a button - delete its TitleSet.

I had multiple "Play All" buttons and could not get rid of them. After re-reading this thread, I noticed vicchiollo's post. I am guessing the new release fixes this issue? I will check it out tonight.

[ChrissyBoy]

Should be the case - yes.