PaulJBis
13th February 2006, 20:37
Hi all:
A friend of mine who works with Scenarist was making the typical menu to select subtitles tracks: there are buttons for English and French subtitles, you press one of them and the menu selects automatically the "Play" button, which resumes the feature (using the RSM command). In order to make the language buttons work, he tried to use LinkNoLink to select a subtitle track and go back to the same menu, so each button would have something like:
{SetSTN subpicture=1;ON; LinkNoLink, button=4}
Where "button=4" would be the "Play" button.
Anyway, this worked well in Scenarist simulation and also in PowerDVD, but he discovered to his horror that it didn't work in stand-alone players (it did all kinds of weird stuff). After searching here, I found a thread (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=84067) that recommended not using LinkNoLink, but "Jump to current cell" instead, so he changed the commands in each button to:
{SetSTN subpicture=1;ON; LinkCN subtitles-t-scn-cell, button=4}
Where "subtitles-t-scn-cell" is the name of the menu cell. And sure enough, now it works everywhere... but what we don't understand is: why? What's wrong with "LinkNoLink"? Is it common knowledge that this command causes problems?
A friend of mine who works with Scenarist was making the typical menu to select subtitles tracks: there are buttons for English and French subtitles, you press one of them and the menu selects automatically the "Play" button, which resumes the feature (using the RSM command). In order to make the language buttons work, he tried to use LinkNoLink to select a subtitle track and go back to the same menu, so each button would have something like:
{SetSTN subpicture=1;ON; LinkNoLink, button=4}
Where "button=4" would be the "Play" button.
Anyway, this worked well in Scenarist simulation and also in PowerDVD, but he discovered to his horror that it didn't work in stand-alone players (it did all kinds of weird stuff). After searching here, I found a thread (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=84067) that recommended not using LinkNoLink, but "Jump to current cell" instead, so he changed the commands in each button to:
{SetSTN subpicture=1;ON; LinkCN subtitles-t-scn-cell, button=4}
Where "subtitles-t-scn-cell" is the name of the menu cell. And sure enough, now it works everywhere... but what we don't understand is: why? What's wrong with "LinkNoLink"? Is it common knowledge that this command causes problems?