Menu highlights last activated button

[theWallflower]

I'm trying to author a DVD with several titles. I have all the titles linked together (one plays after the other, and then the next, and then the next). I would like to be able to have the menu highlight the last activated title when pressing "root menu" on the remote. For example if the user started by playing title1 and then watched up to the middle of title3 and pressed "menu", it would return to the menu with the "title3" button highlighted. Is there a way to do this? (am using DVD-lab pro)

[guns1inger]

You may be able to do it but it would probably involve programming. By default the last title seen by the player would probably be the first one. I would pose this question in the mediachance forum. There are some real power users there who can tell you if this can be done, and if so, how easily.

[abc-123]

Yes you can do this easily. First clone your root menu as many times as the number of clips you have. (So if you have 10 clips you make 9 extra menus.) Go into the playback properties of each menu and set the default highlight button. (For menu 2 highlight button 2, for menu 3 highlight button 3, etc.)

Then go into the connections window and right click on your first clip. Select "UOPs and settings". Under advanced navigation control next to "menu button", select the proper menu. This is where it will go to when you press the menu button on your remote. Repeat this for all your clips. (First clip going to root menu, second going to the first clone with the highlighted button being number 2.)

You can set some of your other buttons here as well if you untick the checkbox that says "strictly adhere to Dvd..." if you want to.

[mats.hogberg]

Seems like an awful roundabout and space consuming way. At least with DVDAuthor, it's a small thing to set a variable value to keep track of where you left a menu, and set highlight according to this variable when you return. Should be quite possible in DVD-Lab too, even if I'm just guessing here.

/Mats

[abc-123]

Yeah, you can set the values in dvdlab as well, but then you'd have to know what all the proper GPRM's are. (Which I don't )

[thegeeman]

Not the easiest program in the world-DVD Lab Pro. Hats off to abc-123 for explanation. Being the brain dead muppet at times that i am, i would have gone with TDA as mats.hogberg mentioned and select the action to be taken after each track-just a drop down menu in 'Menu Display Settings'.

[mats.hogberg]

For the record, I wasn't referring to TDA - but DVDAuthor (the CLI tool from LinuxLand).

/Mats

[thegeeman]

Apologies-See, the brain dead muppet reference was right. thanks.

[mats.hogberg]

No worries!

/Mats

[theWallflower]

Ok, The good people at the DVD-Lab Pro forum gave me a solution. The following code should be put into the PRE VM commands for the menu:

GPRM0 = 0 
GPRM8 = 1 
if (GPRM11 == W) GPRM0 = SPRM5 
if (GPRM11 == X1) GPRM8 = Y1 
if (GPRM11 == X2) GPRM8 = Y2 
if (GPRM11 == X3) GPRM8 = Y3
if (GPRM11 == X4) GPRM8 = Y4 
...
if (GPRM11 == Xn) GPRM8 = Yn 
if (GPRM0 == Z1) GPRM8 = Y1
if (GPRM0 == Z2) GPRM8 = Y2 
if (GPRM0 == Z3) GPRM8 = Y3
if (GPRM0 == Z4) GPRM8 = Y4 
...
if (GPRM0 == Zn) GPRM8 = Yn
GPRM8 *= 1024 
SetHL_BTN GPRM8

Where:
W = the menu's IN node number (this can be viewed from the connections workspace, there is a button to show node numbers, its the one on the arrow going into the menu)
X1 - Xn = Each of the title's IN node numbers (see note above) from title 1 to title n
Y1 - Yn = Each of the button numbers (visible on the menu in a little yellow box next to each button)
Z1 - Zn = Each of the movie's title numbers (in DVD lab, this is above and to the left of each title)

One last note: In the menu's PBC properties, make sure that "Highlight Defualt Button" is set to 0. The code will take care of making button 1 default.

[Shadowmistress]

Excellent! Now I'll be able to do this as well. Thanks for posting back!