DVD Studio Pro 4 Scripting Issues

I have been working on a DVD and have only just started to work with scripts. I now want to make a back button go to different menus depending on what the last menu was that was looked at.
Any suggestions?

Not sure if you mean back buttons such as buttons over video?
You can set the menu command on the remote to go to a script and/or set the end jump of the track (or story) to go to a script. Basically you would make one script that tracks which menu the button was pressed on, put a value in, jump to where you want to go, then jump back.
So from the Menu 1 (or whatever your call it) set the button actions to a script (NOTE all the scripts are not exact in terminology below, just use the script builders for exact syntax from pulldowns)
mov GPRM 0, 1// moving the value 1 to GPRM 0 , GPRM = 1
mov GPRM 1, SPRM 8// sets GPRM to the value of the button pressed which is in increments of 1024 - button 1 is 1024, button 2 is 2048
Jump Somewhere if GPRM 1 = 1024
Jump Somewhere Else if GPRM 1 =2048
Menu 2 (or whatever your call it set the button actions to a script
mov GPRM 0, 2// moving the value 2 to GPRM 0 , GPRM 0 = 2
mov GPRM 1, SPRM 8// sets GPRM to the value of the button pressed which is in increments of 1024 - button 1 is 1024, button 2 is 2048
Jump Somewhere if GPRM 1 = 1024
Jump Somewhere Else if GPRM 1 =2048
Then the script to go back
jump menu 1 if GPRM 1 =1
jump menu 2 if GPRM 1 = 2
Also take a look [here|http://dvdstepbystep.com/trackmarkers.php] for some easier ways to set jumps.

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