More than 4 Subpicture Colors!

[mverta]

I'm looking at a SD DVD where there are 5 menu choices - the highlighted choice gets an underline - and each choice produces a distinctly different colored line. There's a maroon, a blue, a green, a yellow, and a white. I'm looking at it, but I have no idea how it was done. It's just a standard menu, but if you only have 3 subpicture colors and the background color, how did they do it?!


_Mike

[bigotti5]

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=110621

[mverta]

Thank YOU!

_Mike

[hamletiii]

should be doable using color groups. The same subpicture color can be mapped up to 3 different color groups.

[mpucoder]

Yes, in menus the CHG_COLCON command is not available (more precisely CHG_COLCON can not be used with highlights, be they menu buttons or BOV), but there are three groups of colors for highlighting giving you 9 colors (assuming you always have a transparent background color in each group)

Also the underlying video has a huge selection of colors. By using the subpicture as a mask these colors can be used in the "selected" or "activated" states rather than just the "normal" state.