1 Reply Latest reply: Sep 29, 2012 1:36 PM by Stan Jones RSS

    How do you program a Commentary On/Off menu button graphically to stay 'on' once clicked?

    Creatively Bankrupt Community Member

      When designing disc menus that contain a special feature like an Audio Commentary, the menu usually has a visual toggle indicating the current state of the commetnary - always defaulted to 'Off'. When 'On' is clicked, I jump to a different PSD menu that has the default visual toggle set to 'On' and the user is free to continue browing the disc menus. This is how commercial film discs seem to handle audio commentaries in their menus as well.

       

      The problem is, once the user clicks to a different menu destination, then back to Special Features, the Commentary is back to 'Off' visually, even though the disc is still set to play the alternate audio channel. I can resolve this by making duplicates of every menu and sub-menu then flipping between those two worlds depending on the current state of the commentary - but it becomes a bit of a pain if there is a complex disc menu structure to begin with. For example, having a disc with two different toggle options like Audio Commentary On/Off and Subtitles On/Off would require 4 versions of every menu to keep it visually accurate with the user selections.

       

      Is there any other method to do this in Encore or is that type of activity reserved for Scenarist-level disc authoring apps? I would love to know a way to say if audioTrack = 1, show specialFeatureMenu1 and if audioTrack = 2, show specialFeatureMenu2 - so when the user leaves to another menu and returns, the disc doesn't default to specialFeatureMenu1.