Persistant little button, is there a limit?

[KnightsWhoSayNi]

This is strange, I am using scenarist, All menus are in Language Domain.I have a main menu (Root) that has a button link to a scene selction menu. There are 12 buttons on the PTT (scene select) menu numbered 1 - 12 from top to bottom (all within the safe area). When hitting the PTT from the Root button link, button 2 highlights. If I play the PTT only in the preview window, button 1 will highlight. There are no force selected buttons in the track view either. I muxed the DVD to be sure that this was not just a preview glitch, which, it was not. I also do not have any Pre/Cell/Post commands that set the button highlight.(There are GPRM's for branching though)

I recreated the track and buttons from scratch and the same thing occurs. I even tried moving the buttons and leaving the linking intact i.e Button 1 postitioned at buttons 2's position an vice versa. Still no joy....


Does anyone have any experience with this quirk?

Cheers in advance KWSN

[Crazyjoe]

If there is no forced selected button defined in your menu, than the button with the number of the button which linked to the menu will be highlightet. So if you want button 1 highlighted in your PTT menu, you'll have to assign button 1 in the root menu to link to the PTT menu. Or in case it's an animated menu you could put the menu twice on the disc. In the first run button one is forced selected, in the second pgc there's no forced selected button. So a link from another menu points to the first pgc, and instead of looping the first pgc jump to the second with no forced selected button and loop this one.

I hope I didn't misunderstood your problem. :)

[SurfDrifter]

You could try also to have that button the command SET HIGHLIGHT BUTTON and link afterwards to PTT menu

The command of the button that leads to PTT menu will look like that...

{SetHL_BTNN_BTNN=1;LinkPGCN Chapters-t pgc]

Don't forget to have Force Selected Button of PTT menu, set to "Nonexistent"

[KnightsWhoSayNi]

Thanks for the replies CrazyJoe and SurfDrifter.

CJ I was totally unaware that the "clicked" button on a previous menu set the highlight on the destination menu, thanks very much for clearing that one up. I eventually went with a post command on the Main that set a GRPM value of 1 and then had the PRE on the chapter menu compare against that GPRM. If the GPRM matched the value set at the main menu post command, then it sets the highlighted button to button 1, and then sets the GPRM to 0 so that when the selected episode completes, the "episode" button that the user pressed is again highlighted when returned to the chapter(episode) menu. this is obvioulsy not the easiest solution, but it worked for me and does not interfere with navigation to other menus from the main menu.

Cheers agian for the info everyone