Ulead 1.0 - Manual (Page 61)

SpruceUp User’s Guide 3—21
Add a Button to the Menu
Add a button to the menu by selecting the Button tab in the Media Gallery, clicking on one
of the buttons, and dragging it to the Work Area. Notice that some buttons have a window
for displaying a video thumbnail while others are solid. For our purposes, use one with the
video window. For now, the video on the button matches the video in the background.
Once a button is on the background, it can be moved and sized using normal Windows style
methods. For example, to make the button taller, move the cursor to the bottom edge and
watch for the cursor to change to a vertical line with arrows on each end. Now press the left
mouse button down and drag the bottom edge. Once the mouse button is released, the
menu button is drawn to fit the new size. Position the button by clicking inside it and
dragging. You can also use the keyboard's arrow keys to nudge its position.
Remove a button from the Work Area by selecting it (a red outline appears around it) and
pressing the keyboard's Delete button.
Assign a button as default by right-clicking on it and selecting Set as Default. The default
button is used anytime you drag a movie or menu directly to a menu.
Add a Target to the Button
To have a button start a movie playing back, simply drag the movie from the Media Gallery
and drop it on the desired button. The button's video window changes to the movie's
EyeFrame™ image.
Dragging the movie to the background directly also works; SpruceUp assigns the default
button to the movie.
To target a different menu, you must first create it. Do this by dragging a background from
the Media Gallery to the gray rectangle in the Menu Gallery. The work area changes to the
new menu and a new Menu Gallery gray box is created.
To have a button from the first menu select this new menu, switch to the first menu by
clicking on its thumbnail in the Menu Gallery, and add a button to it. Set the target to the
second menu by now dragging its thumbnail from the Menu Gallery to the new button.
Alternatively, target buttons by right-clicking on them and selecting the menu or movie to
link to. See the Creating Menus topic for more button details, such as adding URLs to them.
Add Some Text
SpruceUp lets you type text onto the background menu. Click with the mouse on an empty
part of the Work Area to place a blinking text cursor. You can now type the desired text.
Click on an empty area to exit the text entry mode - a red box outlines the new text item.
Size and position it as with buttons.
The Work Area Toolbar adds standard text attribute control icons, allowing you to control
the color, font and size, as well as toggle bold, italics, and underline on/off. See the Typing
Text topic for details.
Saving the Project
Save the project by clicking on File then Save As. Saving a project does not copy any
assets – it simply saves the details of how to create the project.
Tip: An asterisk displays next to the file name on SpruceUp's Title Bar
if changes have been made to the project since it was last saved (or has
never been saved). You cannot export an unsaved project.