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73 Chapter 4 – Making a Presentation Interactive
• Add Menu Item: Press this button to create a Menu item. The Add Menu Item window will open. There are two
items,
Active Image and Inactive Image. The Active Image serves as a cursor that visually informs the user what
Menu item they are on. The Inactive Image is what appears beside the current menu item when the user
navigates to a different menu item. Use the Browse buttons to select each image. Click OK to create the menu
item. By default, subsequent menu items you create will contain the same Active and Inactive Images.
Tip: If you want nothing to appear beside a Menu item when it is not selected, choose an Inactive image that matches
the color of the background.
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Position: Adjust the position of your Menu item by inputting specific numbers. The X field corresponds to the
position of the menu item on a horizontal axis. The
Y field corresponds to the position of the menu item on a
vertical axis. Alternatively, you can click the active image in the preview image and drag it to the desired position.
The inactive image will appear in the same spot when the menu item is not selected.
• Offset next: Check this checkbox to specify a position for subsequent menu items in relation to the previous menu
items. Input the data in the
X and Y fields.
• Selected Image: This is the active image you selected when creating the Menu item. Click Browse to change the
image at any point.
• Unselected Image: This is the inactive image you selected when creating the menu item. Click Browse to change
the image at any point.
• Store image in cache: Check this box to save the corresponding image in a cache so that you can use it more
readily in the future.
The Navigation section is where you determine how a user moves from one menu item to the next. Although the actions
were previously defined in the General tab, this is where you specify which menu item a specific action will bring a user.
The possible actions are Up, Down, Left, and Right. In this section, each action has a dropdown list that displays the
menu item number for each created menu item. By default, None is selected for each.
Selecting a number in the dropdown list will allow the user to navigate from the current menu item to the specified menu
item by performing the corresponding action. Let’s say you are adjusting the features of menu item number 1, meaning “1”
is displayed between the Previous and Next buttons at the top of the window. If you click the dropdown list for the Down