Jumping to buttons in Scenarist menus

[mickrick]

I've created an audio selection menu, and when I select my audio stream, dd or dts, I want to automatically jump to "Play Movie" the 4th button on my menu.

I've tried jumping to the current cell, highlight button 4 etc, but with no luck.

Can anyone tell me how to do this?

[dan]

In the properties for the "highlight play" [select the highlight layer in track mode, and look at the middle, bottom window], be sure that "Force Selected Button" is set to "Nonexistent." This will allow button 4 [or any button] to be selected after the cell restarts after the button press, as, by default, it's usually set to 1, which causes it to start with button 1 highlighted, no questions asked.

Being that you didn't say why it wasn't working or how it didn't work, this might not solve your problem. If this doesn't fix it, please describe how it doesn't work. [I'm not meaning to sound rude here at all.]

Thanks,
Dan

[kitchy]

One problem with the above method is if you want to highlight a particular button when you enter this menu. I've been working on this problem too, and have found that if you use the command highlight button in Pre of that PGC (menu)( you might also be able to use force highlight, haven't tried that), and then link to Cell and highlight button within cell instead of linking directly to PGC button. if you link to PGC button, you'll have problems if force highlight is set to a particular button.
Or you can use a GPRM setting for highlighting a button if the menu hasn't been entered before, if it has, it won't do a highlight.

Kitchy

[dan]

a really dumb way to solve that issue...

When no button is set to be highlighted when the menu starts [usually with the "force highlighted..." option or from a jump to...command], the DVD player automatically starts the menu with the highlight corresponding with button 1 turned on. Simply, put button one wherever the spot is you want to be automatically selected when the menu first comes on. For some reason [probably psychology or what we're used to, in terms of reading and writing (no offense intended to those who do things like this in other ways) button 1 is normally on the top left of the screen. Just put it somewhere else, then route the buttons in Scenarist [autoroute, or otherwise]. The menu will start with button 1 selected wherever it is onscreen unless you have a command that will specifically highlight another button.

The method of using pre-commands for the PGC also works [as you said the "highlight button" command as well as the "Jump to Cell" then specifying the highlighted button command also [among others] work fine too]. You should only need to use a GPRMs if you want the button highlighted onscreen when the menu opens to change depending on what the viewer has already seen.

But, it seems that given an audio selection menu, odds are, there won't be a need for a GPRM. The simplest way, just make button 1 to correspond with whatever you want highlighted first, even if it's not technically the first in a row or column.

Any problems with this, please post them...

Thanks,
Dan