Responding to remote button presses in DVDAuthorGUI

[Asja]

Hi, I was wondering if it's possible to respond directly to button presses on the remote rather than having the user navigate to an on-screen button and press enter.
For example: The screen has 4 buttons, say up, down left, right. Normally the up button is default highlighted and the user can press the arrow buttons to scroll through the options and press enter to select one. Instead I would like the user to simply be able to press the left button to select the option "left". Is this possible?

I use the arrow keys as an example because I'm pretty sure they are common to all DVD remotes, but if other buttons can be responded to I would like to know. Of course I could have an invisible button and have the user press enter, but that only allows one option, rather than several as in the example above.

Thanks for any help.

[liquid217]

What you are asking is possible under the DVD spec (and DVDAuthor itself), but DVDAuthorGUI itself is not able to do that. If you want to edit the XML manually, you can take a look at this:
http://old.nabble.com/-Dvdauthor-users--How-to-rip-menus-or-parts-of-menus--td8109595.html#a8130173

I have never done this before, so you'd be mostly on your own on this, if you went this route.
Although the GUI says you can edit the XML, the only XML it lets you directly edit, will be the main dvdauthor XML, not the spumux XML. You can, of course, browse to your temp folder and pull all of the XML files out and edit them manually. These changes obviously can't be saved in the DVDAuthorGUI project file.

[Bjs]

Q: Instead I would like the user to simply be able to press the left button to select the option "left". Is this possible?

A: Yes it is

1: A fifth (null) button area , one without highlight is designated as first button as default "landing" zone upon entering menu.

2: The other four buttons are given position assignments, up, left, right, down ... the one in between is center.

Think of a cross

3: Buttons 1 to 4 are set as active ... ie, as soon as they are chosen the desired nav command is triggered
4: Null button (5) is non-reactive

Simple ... relatively speaking.

[Asja]

Awesome, thank you to both of you. I wasn't aware a button could be set to "active" as you describe. It is indeed a simple solution with this functionality available.