This should be easy.. please help!

[Immortalis]

Heyas, i've been authoring DVDs for a long time now but never really made any special menus for them. The current one I'm working on I'm trying to make a special menu for it and for what I want to do, I think it should be really simple, yet I've tried a ton of programs and can't seem to get it to do what I want.

My program of choice so far is DVD-Lab.

Here's an example of what I'm trying to do. (This is just an example) =P

I have a menu and the buttons are pictures of smiley faces. When a button is selected (not activated), I want a different picture to show up.. like.. /shrug.. lets say dogs. Now, I've gone through tutorials etc on using Sub-pictures in the menu, and it works to a small point. Instead of getting the picture of the dog to show up, it kind of shows through in an outline with a pre-defined color filiing it in. I've tried making button on top setting it to "invisible when selected", but for some odd reason, it doesn't invis when selected. then I tried reversing it, putting the smiley in the background and the dog as the button and setting it to "invisible normal" but it still shows up all the time... the only way I can seem to make a button invisible is if I set it to "invisible all" which is pointless.

What am I doing wrong? Please help.. thanks.

[beartums]

In a standard menu, you only really have three colors you can work with (the fourth color being the transparent color). So, if you wanted the OUTLINE of a smiley to be replaced byt the OUTLINE of a dog, that's possible: make the smiley black, and the dog red. Then, when not selected, black maps to smiley color (probably yellow) and red maps to nothing. When selected, black maps to nothing and red maps to the dog color (say brown).

This doesn't work if you're using actual pictures with multiple colors. If you want t do that, the only thing I could suggest is using switched menus. You can look up tutorials for them, but it basically means that every time you move to a new button you will be displaying a different menu with the dog in the place of the smiley for THAT button only. I don't really like switched menus, since in my experience they are slow and obnoxious to use. Still, to each his/her own.

I hope this helps.

good luck.

[Immortalis]

Thanks for the input... I've already started to play around with switched menus, but it doesn't work =\ not quite sure why... the auto-action feature doesnt seem to work... maybe I'll have to try it in another program.