dvdstyler - invisible text menu buttons. Any other good menu programs?

[oldcpu]

Does anyone have any favourite dvdauthor program (other than dvdstyler) for creating custom menus. I'm looking at creating a top level menu that would link to about a half dozen lower level menus. And then each lower level menu would link to 1/2 dozen to a dozen short video clips. [and a standard navigation between menus, ... nothing exotic]

I didn't really care for qdvdauthor as it didn't work well for me (although maybe I gave up too early). dvdstyler appears to do what I want, but it has a bug I can't (or rather won't) work around.

I spent a frustrating time yesterday with dvdstyler v.1.4. Its menu text buttons, which should be visible when the button is not selected, are invisible (although the button's still function, when the cursor/focus is moved over the location of the invisible menu button). The view on the dvdstyler forum is this feature was "broken" on dvdstyler with a more recent Image Magick version (I am running ImageMagick v.6.1.8).

Purportedly v.5.5.7 of ImageMagick works ok with dvdstyler v.1.4.
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1331380&forum_id=318795

Another user reported dvdstyler worked when he downgraded libmagick6 to 6.0.6.2-2.4
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=315503

I have 57 dependencies tied to ImageMagic v.6.1.8 (which also comes by default with my SuSE distribution), so going back to an older Imagic Magic version is something I am very reluctant to do. Taking the time to check out the impact (of a version downgrade) on 57 different programs will be very time consuming.

I searched the ImageMagick web site, downloaded the latest v.6.2.4-5 of ImageMagick, but the change history does not say if it fixes the problem:
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php

Has anyone else encountered and solved this?

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Edit: as a note, having difficulty with bottons appears to be a re-accuring dvdstyler problem:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1042394&group_id=92301&atid=600266

[oldcpu]

I spent a frustrating time yesterday with dvdstyler v.1.4. Its menu text buttons, which should be visible when the button is not selected, are invisible (although the button's still function, when the cursor/focus is moved over the location of the invisible menu button). The view on the dvdstyler forum is this feature was "broken" on dvdstyler with a more recent Image Magick version (I am running ImageMagick v.6.1.8).
After a successful upgrade of dvdauthor from 0.6.11 to 0.6.12-alpha-2992-1 and a failed downgrade attempt of ImageMagic 6.1.8 to 5.5.7, and after a failed upgrade attempt to 6.2.4-5, I've given up on this for now. I'll try again in a few months when hopefully this has been worked out.

This dvdstyler problem appears to be associated with Image Magick versions greater than 6.0.7.1 and less than 6.2.2.0, together with dvdauthor-0.6.11 or older. I've read updating to dvdauthor-0.6.12-alpha-2992-1, together with upgrading to ImageMagick 6.2.2 (and 6.2.3), has worked for a couple of users.

Unfortunately neither the downgrade, not upgrade, are paths for me, as I got 32-dependency issues when I tried to upgrade ImageMagick (v.6.1.8 to v.6.2.4-5) and 57 dependencies for me to downgrade (v.6.1.8 to ImageMagick 5.5.7). Now 32 may be less than 57, but its still too many for me to spend the time trying to sort out. ...

Best wishes to the author's in sorting out (and maintaining constant interfaces) between their packages. I can see now this can be a difficult issue.

[oldcpu]

qdvdauthor also has problems. I could not get it to add a background to a menu. I posted a bug report on source.forge.
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1294653&group_id=98243&atid=620414

I also wasn't the only one to encounter this difficulty:
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1335193&forum_id=340649

So I am now trying to see if I can find another linux DVD menu creation/authoriing package.