[Dvdauthor-users] Re: Responding to hardbutton presses?

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Hi,

> This is exactly what I'm looking for --- it's just a shame I have to use 
> spumux. I've managed to avoid this so far. (My DVD will have no softbuttons 
> or video.) Am I right in assuming that I can only define actions for the 
> directional keys?

you can check out my How-to on switched menus, which uses actions, at
http://www.geocities.com/samanthalane/dvd/index.html

> 
> And why are the actions defined in spumux, not in dvdauthor, which is where I 
> would have expected it to be?

Well, one of the drawbacks to using actions, if you have to define
the navigation using spumux
<button label="Button1"
   x0="190" y0="282"
   x1="328" y1="293"
   down="ActionDown"
   up="ActionUp"/>
<action label="ActionDown"/>
<action label="ActionUp"/>

and then you define what the action actually does in dvdauthor
<button name="ActionUp">{ g1 = 2; jump menu 2; }</button>


> 
> (Actually, I really want to implement this as a VCD or an SVCD rather than a 
> DVD; the end result is going to be too small to be worth economically putting 
> on a DVD, and DVD-CD support is a bit iffy on most DVD players. For some 
> reason, SVCD slide shows are much faster on my player, too.)
Well that's a completely different kettle of fish.
You need vcdxbuid. 
VCDs don't have soft menus (as far as I know :s ) you just select an
item via the number keys on your remote.
Depending on what you want to do, Nero might suffice for your authoring
needs, it doesn't support heirarchical menus though, which why I always
used vcdxbuild.

regards
Samantha