Menu button Highlight

Can't seem to figure out how to control colors for "hover" , "active" and "activated" on buttons. I created menu PS first then imported as menu and converted buttons. But Edit Menu Colors seems to have no affect. And my DVDs are coming out with no way to "see" the navigation that is happening when remote is used the select item.
I know this is proable pretty basic But I'm stumped.
Thanks
AS

Watching the "Highlight Colors - The Low-Down on Subpictures" video tutorial available
here
(via the Internet Archive) will probably help to understand how to use subpicture highlighting.

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Hi I am using DVD studio pro 4 on a mac book pro.
When I simulate my project and use the dvd remote to naviagate from menu to menu I have noticed that some menus start with the first button highlighted and some with different buttons highlighted.
I have used target menu to link them together rather than link the menu to the exact menu/button1. Ideally I want each menu to start with the first button highlighted and ready to go, but I don't know how dvd sp sets the order and how I can fix this without relinking.
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Check in Inspector Menu Properties the Default Button setting. That must be the button highlighted by default when you open a menu. Try simulating just the menu and check what button you get highlighted by default.
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!http://dvdstepbystep.com/MOTION/25.jpg!

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Note: if run on a computer, the user will need to Dbl-click the Button, as Auto-Activate only works seamlessly from a DVD set-top player.
There are several other posts on this forum (a few very recent), where I go into much more detail. Also, Jeff Bellune's excellent book, The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe EncoreDVD 2.0, by Focal Press, has excellent, easy to follow steps for doing this. Though written for EncoreDVD 2.0, 100% of the book will apply to CS3 & CS4.
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maartenvr wrote:
> How do I set the menu button for the currently open page
highlighted in
> dreamweaver?
>
> My code is like this:
>
> <ul id="navigation" class="navIR">
> <li id="nav-home"><a href="../"
class="current"> title="Home">Home</a></li>
> <li id="nav-about-us"><a
href="../about.php"> title="About Us">About Us</a></li>
> <li id="nav-contact-us"><a
href="../contact.php"> title="Contact Us">Contact Us</a></li>
>
>
> As you can see right now the home page has
class="current". But using
> templates, how do I get this to apply to the others when
those pages are open?
>

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