About button properties, About resume – Apple DVD Studio Pro 4 User Manual

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To set a button’s connection using the shortcut menu

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Control-click the button whose connection you want to set, choose Target from the
shortcut menu, then choose the element to connect to from the submenus.

A checkmark appears next to the currently selected target.

Those elements that can have a pre-script assigned to them (menus, tracks, stories, and
slideshows) are listed in square brackets. Setting a button’s target to the element in
brackets allows the pre-script, if one is assigned to the element, to run before the element
appears. If you set the target to anything else in the list, the pre-script is not run. See

Pre-Scripts

for more information.

About Resume

If you jump to a menu while watching a track, for example, by pressing the remote
control’s Menu button, the DVD player remembers what track you were playing and
how far you were into it.

A mostly unknown feature of DVD players is that you can press the Menu button while
in a menu to resume playing the track at the same place you jumped from.

Creating a button on the menu and setting its Target to Resume provides the viewer
with a more obvious way to resume playing the track.

About Button Properties

When you select or create a button, the Button Inspector appears.

Note: There is a different Button Inspector for buttons on layered menus. See

About

Layered Menu Button Properties

for more information.

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Chapter 13

Creating Menus Using the Standard Method

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