Return remote button disabled

Question

I'm having trouble getting the Return remote control button to behave in a DVD that I'm authoring. If I set the Return button at the disc level to call a script that does some conditional jumps, then when I play the DVD in the simulator, the Return button is disabled during playback of tracks. It's also disabled when I play the DVD using Apple's DVD Player application. (The Menu button is set to call the same script and it works fine.) Similarly, if I just set the Return button to call the main menu directly, I still have the Return button disabled (get a "Not Permitted" message when playing in Apple DVD Player, for example.)
I have looked at the User Operations at the track level, and nothing is disabled there. Is there somewhere else the source of this problem could be hiding?
Thanks,
--JV

Answer 1

Yep... the Return button is not well implemented in DVDSP and I'd go so far as to say that you're probably better off not using it.
The return button is designed to allow you to navigate the disc hierarchy... it is more properly called the 'go up' button... taking you from where you are back up one 'level'. In fact it really doesn't do this very well at all, and hasn't since v1. Trai Forrester wrote a pretty good article about it, but for the life of me I can't find it now.
You'll need to find a way around the issue - like adding logical buttons on each menu to help with the navigation.