(Maestro) Buttons to be formed as graphic symbols?

[dea]

Hi!
I'm working on some menus in Maestro right now and on one menu I've got buttons that's "not only text"-buttons. For example, I've got a small "cartoon-TV" on the background that I would like to use as a button. The thing is that I want the button to work as if the TV (with a border or something) is selected and NOT with a square that I've only managed to do with Maestro (according to the doom9 guide).
Anybody know how to accomplish this?? A follow-up question would be how do you make text-buttons to be highlighted so that the text only change color? (like any commercial DVD's out there)

Sorry if this is all fuzzy.. having a hard time explaining this in a foregin language.

Thanks.

[oddyseus]

U have to explore the highlight overlay area of menu design. Maestro manual has some examples in it. Also in the forum u can check this thread. http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=39172

I have other links as well, but I am not at home right now. Check this and report back. It gives a whole good idea about highlight overlay.

[timmmay]

For the text button, you basically need a duplicate of the background text as a subpicture. Make sure that the subpicture text is on top covering the background text and exactly aligned. For instance, you are using white and black for the subpicture (white background and black text). On maestro colormap slider's, you set all 3 slider's for white to 0 since you don't want it to show-up at all. And for black, you set the 'button selection' slider to 10 (depends how opaque you want it to), and I usually just set the other 2 sliders to 0 also. So when you select the button text, only the subpicture text will show-up and not the whole rectangle.

It's pretty much the same premise for your icon-tv. You just need a graphic program like photoshop to stroke the icon with a subpictue color.

[dea]

Tremendous thanks guys!
I'm starting to feel I'm getting a hang of this now. Superb help!!

Thanks - VERY much! :)

[Arky]

Timmmay gave a nice brief description of what you need to do. This forum post (http://www.dvdrhelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=158201) will give you some hints, too, but bear in mind that some of it concerns motion menus, so you need only pick out the pieces of information which are relevant to you. If you find it confuses you more, then simply ignore it! ;)


Arky ;o)