Rollover Overlays

Having trouble creating rollover overlays on my menu driven project in button menu of FCP. I have a total of seven menu connections and only two worked? Is it something simple that I am overlooking?

Do you mean the button menu in DVDSP?
--Bob

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Overly button issue

Having trouble creating rollover overlays on my menu driven project in button menu of FCP. I have a total of seven menu connections and only two worked? Is it something simple that I am overlooking?

If you mean rollover rollvers (via layered menus) it could be the player itself, they are not supported acrosss all players.
Layer menus are here Layered Menus
Did you assign navigation to the buttons (or are yyou only going back and foorth between two buttons?)

Text as rollover via overlay problems

I've been trying to search posts for an answer to this, but nothing I've found seems to be helping.
I'm currently making a simple DVD with two menu buttons. One rollover has the word "english" pop up under the english title of the movie, and the button next to it has an "espanol" rollover pop up when the user hovers over the spanish movie title.
So I made an overlay with a black background and white text, trying to make photoshop use only 4 colors since I only have 3 bits of colors to work with. I did my best to make them look passably smooth via tweaking the highlight colors, but in the end the client keeps complaining that the rollovers look aliased (especially that tilde that they've been going on for 3 days about). Is there a better process for creating text overlays, or is this a recipe for disaster due to all the curving lines? Can anybody give me a place to look that has a definitive "DVDs can not do this", if it's really a technology limitation I'm up against?
Thank you in advance.

Instead of 3 colors make it one color and use a grayscale overlay. This will be "better" but you will still see some "stair steps". The other solution, which a lot of "Hollywood" DVDs use is just have a underline under the word and not have a overlay of text.

CP7 Rollover images Show up every OTHER slide

I am using CP7 and I have a number of graphics on slide 1 that I have defined to have a 'rest of project' timing. I have made multiple groups of graphics on slide 1 and I have made them to NOT be 'visible in output' this way, when I need them, I can use advanced actions to hide/show them (by group name) when I need them for subsequent slides. I am using slide 1 for this instead of the master slide because I need to define the stacking of graphics fairly specifically (slide 3 and further have some graphics that need to be in front of some things and behind some other things).
The set up is that I have a smart shape with a graphic and I am using it as a button on slide 1 (NOT visible in output and lasts for rest of project). Overlayed over top of my smart shape/button is a rollover image. The two objects work just like a rollover button you would see on the web. There is an advanced action that opens the group that the button is a part of and a few other graphic groups that I need to make it look good. When you click the button, there is another advanced action that is supposed to hide the group that both of those graphics are in, plus the other graphics that make it look good, and then go to the next slide. There is an advanced action on the next slide OnEnter that shows the what is needed for the beginning of the next slide.
So, here's the problem. When I click my button, everything disappears and goes to the next slide EXCEPT the rollover graphic, which stays on the screen and on top of all other graphics in slide 2. The SAME EXACT advanced action is used on slide 2 to go to slide 3 (with the same exact button because they are all really on slide 1 the whole time and just being made visible or invisible). When I click, I go to slide 3 and the rollover graphic is gone. I click the button again (to go to slide 4) and I go to slide 4 but the rollover graphic is BACK AGAIN!
I know that this is a complicated write-up, and I am going to go start from scratch to see if I can replicate the problem with a stripped down version of the advanced actions in a new file, but I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction about what is going on. I have deleted and re-inserted the rollover image, but it still does the same thing. I have re-coded the advanced action and it still does it. I have copied rollover images that DONT have this weird glitch and it still does it.
Anyone have any ideas?

I found a 'workaround' to this problem, but I would still like to know what is going on underneath to make this happen. Since I have all the rollover graphics on the first slide with timing or 'rest of project' I just made an animated button in Flash and imported it as a .swf to replace the rollover image. I changed the smart shape underneath from having the image of the button to being transparent (still have it being used as a button with all the same advanced actions as before). Now the swf handles the rollover and the transparent smart button underneath handles the OnClick action and everything works great.
Not sure what was going on with the rollover images, but at least I was able to get the result I needed.

How to activate lightbox from a second rollover link?

I am trying to active my lightbox from a second rollover link and do not know how to do it. I been looking for hours to find the right answer and the closest thing that made any sense was someone saying to do this..
This is commonly caused by a conflict between scripts. Check your body tag and look for an onload attribute. Example:
<body onload="MM_preloadImages(‘/images/menu_on.gif’)…;">
A quick fix to this problem is to append the initLightbox() to the onload attribute as so:
<body onload="MM_preloadImages(‘/images/menu_on.gif’)…;initLightbox()">
Sounds simple enough but the problem is my 'body onload' attitubute in my HTML seems to be uneditable for some reason so I am unable to test if this works or not. Can someone please help me as I am new to dreamweaver and this is my first website. Here is where is sits in my code - not sure if that will help.
thanks
</script>



</head>
<body onload="MM_preloadImages('_images/bit_nav1grey.png','_images/bit_nav2grey.png','_images/b it_nav3grey.png','_images/bit_nav4grey.png','_images/bit_nav5grey.png')">
<div id="container">
<div id="logo">
</div>
<div id="header">
   <div id="banner">
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   <div id="navbar">
     <ul>
       <li><a href="home.html" title="Home" target="_self">Home</a></li>
       <li><a href="about.html" title="About Us" target="_self">About Us</a></li>
       <li><a href="products.html" title="Products" target="_self">Products</a></li>
       <li><a href="news.html" title="News" target="_self">News</a></li>
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No sorry it is not up yet. But here is a sample of my code of what I am trying to do...each of the rollover named <div id="drill_nav1">,<div id="drill_nav2">,<div id="drill_nav3">...etc I want to link to a different lightbox gallery as per example at the bottom. Does that help?
</head>
<body onload="MM_preloadImages('_images/bit_nav1grey.png','_images/bit_nav2grey.png','_images/b it_nav3grey.png','_images/bit_nav4grey.png','_images/bit_nav5grey.png')">
<div id="container">
<div id="logo">
</div>
<div id="header">
   <div id="banner">
   </div>
   <div id="navbar">
     <ul>
       <li><a href="home.html" title="Home" target="_self">Home</a></li>
       <li><a href="about.html" title="About Us" target="_self">About Us</a></li>
       <li><a href="products.html" title="Products" target="_self">Products</a></li>
       <li><a href="news.html" title="News" target="_self">News</a></li>
       <li><a href="contact.html" title="Contact Us" target="_self">Contact Us</a></li>
     </ul>
   </div>
</div>
<div id="main">
   <div id="drill_text">
     <h2 class="drill_heading">Hardcore Drill Bits</h2>
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            Waterways taper out to OD, also known as <em>pie</em> or <em>wedge</em> waterways"></a> </li>
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         <li> <a href="_images/impregnated/face-discharge-drill-bit.jpg" title="FACE DISCHARGE<br />
            Face discharge ports prevent fluid from washing the core "></a> </li>
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            Large ID waterways reduces fluid velocity to prevent core washing, ideal if face discharge ports are getting blocked"></a> </li>
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            16mm matrix height, 4 diamond reinforcing pins per segment and additional waterways, used if bit gauges are being worn out prematurely"></a> </li>
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            All conventional coring systems covered from 46mm up to 8C"></a> </li>
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// BeginOAWidget_Instance_2127022: #gallery
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                imageLoading:            '_images/lightbox/lightbox-ico-loading.gif',        // (string) Path and the name of the loading icon
                imageBtnPrev:            '_images/lightbox/lightbox-btn-prev.gif',            // (string) Path and the name of the prev button image
                imageBtnNext:            '_images/lightbox/lightbox-btn-next.gif',            // (string) Path and the name of the next button image
                imageBtnClose:            '_images/lightbox/lightbox-btn-close.gif',        // (string) Path and the name of the close btn
                imageBlank:                '_images/lightbox/lightbox-blank.gif',            // (string) Path and the name of a blank image (one pixel)
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OBIEE 10g - Ability to overlay Area Chart?

Hi Experts,
I am using OBIEE 10g. I have a requirement to plot Total Market Units with Brand units over time in an Area Chart. The requirement here is that the area of Brand Units should overlay on the Market units measure thus signifying that Brand units is out of the total Market Units, but when this is being plotted into an Area Chart, the Market Units is stacked on top of the Brand Units therefore the chart's total (highest point) on the Y Axis is Market Units + Brand Units but I want this total to reflect only the Market Units figure.
Is there anyway in an Area Chart to show the figures for Market Units and Brand units separately (when mouse rollover) but on the Y axis, it's just showing the Market units's figure?
Sorry if I had confused anyone but I had tried to explain the requirement as best as I can.
Thanks in advance!
Chris

Using logical query filters can convert to sql but it should not with XML.
This is expected behavior for logical queryies only.

Tooltip with Rollover Menus

I am using a tooltip widget in cunjunction with the menu widget and trying to get my menu rollovers to stay active while still utilizing the tooltip to bring up photos.
However the rollover state is zeroed out by the tooltip. The page is located here: http://www.hursey.com/los_angeles_photgrapher_portfolio_landing.html
You can see the rollover state at the "edges" of the secondary menu but when you get into the center (where the trigger is) the state reverts to normal. I tried doing a text overlay in the tooltip but that did not work either. Any suggestions wouldbe much appreciated!

Hello Dana,
As you are using two widgets here (One is Menu and other seems some composition widget), when the mouse pointer reaches the middle of the Menu text, it picks up the styling settings of the composition widget.
And as the triggers of the composition widget are blank transparent rectangles, they do not contain any styling for text. that is why the color of the text is changed back to what it is in normal state.
It sems that you are using a manual Menu here. I would like to suggest a workaround here.
Instead of two widgets, you can only use one widget here and can get rid of the Menu widget.
Now, you can change the size of the blank transparent rectangles (triggers f composition) and add text boxes inside them.
in the text boxes you can insert the same names as you have used in Menu and can also add corresponsing hyperlinks to them (to make them work like a menu).
Also, from the "States" Panel you can change the color for different states as required.
Please have a look at the video below that might help : http://trainingwebcom.worldsecuresystems.com/SachinFTP/2012-11-07_2335.swf
Regards,
Sachin

URGENT: button rollover animations and image fade ins?

Hello, I have a site where an image appears which has 6 words
on it. Each word will be a button where the following actions take
place:
on rollover a line draws through the button
an image fades in on the left and another on the right
when you click the button, a large window (not popup, prefer
within flash) appears with information, I guess an swf or mc would
work.
once you roll out the images fade out and the line draws in
other direction so it disappears
How can I code the buttons to do all this? I am using flash
8.
THanks!

Ok so far so good. IF you mouse over super saturday you will
see what happens. Now, what is the code when I mouse out so those 2
things that appeared will disappear? Also, when you click super
saturday, you will see an swf that loads but it loads in between
other layers and all other buttons are active outside the swf. How
do I overlay it over everything then also have a close button on
this swf? here is the code for a button:
blu.onRollOver = function() {
blu._parent.attachMovie("link8","blu_mc",1,this.getNextHighestDepth(10000));
sat.onRelease = function() {
loadMovie("popup_saturday.swf", "popup");
and the site so far:
http://interactiveboom.com/test/final.html
THX

Buttons in an overlay

Hi all
Recently I created a simple flash text card animation with arrows allowing the user to scoll through the different cards. I wanted to go a step further and make an overlay so when the user rolls over it, it would expand showing a variety of buttons for them to click and link off to in different places
this is where my problem began. I created to overlay as a movie clip and when a small arrow is rolled over the movie clip overlay_mc plays and expands to reveal the buttons and the rollout function causes it to contract. The buttons however are un-clickable and after some research i discovered this is because the overlay_mc clip acts as a layer over the buttons.
Is there anyway I can create an overlay with the buttons remaining active? Help greatly appreciated
Thanks!

If you make the background of your movieclip the object with the rollover/rollout code, then you can have your buttons sitting a layer above it where they will be fully accessible. You will have to add the rollover/rollout code to the buttons as well because when you rollover them you rollout of the background.
Another way to do this would be to use AS3 where you can do all of your interactive code outside of the movieclip.

Dreamweaver CC - Rollover image to text transition for Fluid page css/html5

Hi All,
I am using Dreamweaver CC, Windows 7, PC.
Goal: To create a selectable text and colour overlay (not a second image with text in the image) that appears over the top of an image on rollover of the container that the image is located in, all inside a fluid page. Also I would like to avoid jquery and javascript if it's possible.
Please see the attached HTML5, CSS and 300x300jpg example of this page which should show what i'm trying to do, as you can see currently the text sits below the image on mouse hover and should be fitting nicely inside the image box. I will replicate this through all the images once I have it working correctly also. Please note the page fluid scaling at different sizes as I need the rollover to work at whatever size the window or device is.
Thank you in advance for any answers, ideas, work arounds etc you may have or if i've missed this specific scenario covered elsewhere?
Here is the HTML (apologies for my messy code):
<!doctype html>




<html class="">

<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<link href="../boilerplate.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<link href="../Website_Testing/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

<script src="../respond.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div class="gridContainer clearfix">
<article id="article" class="fluid">
    <div id="Examples" class="fluid">
      <div id="example1" class="fluid">
          <img src="images/300x300.jpg" alt=""/>
          <span class="text">TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT </span>
      </div>
      <div id="example2" class="fluid"><img src="images/300x300.jpg" alt=""/></div>
      <div id="example3" class="fluid"><img src="images/300x300.jpg" alt=""/></div>
      <div id="example4" class="fluid"><img src="images/300x300.jpg" alt=""/></div>
    </div>
</article>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Here is the CSS (apologies for my messy code):
@charset "utf-8";
img, object, embed, video {
    max-width: 100%;
/* IE 6 does not support max-width so default to width 100% */
.ie6 img {
    width:100%;
.fluid {
    display: block;
    text-align: center;
    clear: none;
    float: none;
.fluidList {
    list-style:none;
    list-style-image:none;
    margin:0;
    padding:0;
/* Mobile Layout: 480px and below. */
.gridContainer {
    margin-left: auto;
    margin-right: auto;
    width: 100%;
    clear: none;
    float: none;
#article {
    min-height: 160px;
    margin-left: 0;
    padding-left: 5%;
    padding-top: 16px;
    padding-bottom: 16px;
    padding-right: 5%;
    background-color: rgba(255,254,191,1.00);
#Examples {
    text-align: center;
    padding-top: 16px;
    padding-bottom: 16px;
    margin-left: auto;
    margin-right: auto;
.zeroMargin_mobile {
margin-left: 0;
.hide_mobile {
display: none;
#Examples #example1 {
    padding-top: 5%;
    padding-bottom: 5%;
    display: block;
    width: auto;
#Examples #example2    {
    padding-top: 5%;
    padding-bottom: 5%;
    display: block;
    width: auto;
#Examples #example3 {
    padding-top: 5%;
    padding-bottom: 5%;
    display: block;
    width: auto;
#Examples #example4 {
    padding-top: 5%;
    padding-bottom: 5%;
    display: block;
    width: auto;
.text {
    position: relative;
    display: none;
    background: #999;
    background: rgba(0,0,0,0.3);
    text-align: center;
    top: 0px;
#example1:hover .text {
    display: block;
    background-color: rgba(12,109,242,1);
#example1 {
    -webkit-transition: all 0.35s ease-in-out 0s;
    -o-transition: all 0.35s ease-in-out 0s;
    transition: all 0.35s ease-in-out 0s;
#example1:hover {
    background-color: rgba(12,242,109,1.00);
#example2 {
    -webkit-transition: all .35s ease-in-out;
    -o-transition: all .35s ease-in-out;
    transition: all .35s ease-in-out;
#example2:hover {
    background-color: rgba(12,242,109,1.00);
#example3 {
    -webkit-transition: all .35s ease-in-out;
    -o-transition: all .35s ease-in-out;
    transition: all .35s ease-in-out;
#example3:hover {
    background-color: rgba(12,242,109,1.00);
#example4 {
    -webkit-transition: all .35s ease-in-out;
    -o-transition: all .35s ease-in-out;
    transition: all .35s ease-in-out;
#example4:hover {
    background-color: rgba(12,242,109,1.00);
/* Tablet Layout: 481px to 768px. Inherits styles from: Mobile Layout. */
@media only screen and (min-width: 481px) {
.gridContainer {
    width: 100%;
    margin-left: auto;
    min-height: 100%;
#Examples {
    text-align: center;
    min-height: 640px;
.hide_tablet {
display: none;
.zeroMargin_tablet {
margin-left: 0;
#Examples #example1 {
    float: left;
    padding-left: 2%;
    padding-right: 2%;
    padding-top: 2%;
    padding-bottom: 2%;
    width: 46%;
#Examples #example2 {
    float: left;
    padding-left: 2%;
    padding-right: 2%;
    padding-top: 2%;
    padding-bottom: 2%;
    width: 46%;
#Examples #example3 {
    float: left;
    padding-left: 2%;
    padding-right: 2%;
    padding-top: 2%;
    padding-bottom: 2%;
    width: 46%;
#Examples #example4 {
    float: left;
    padding-left: 2%;
    padding-right: 2%;
    padding-top: 2%;
    padding-bottom: 2%;
    width: 46%;
/* Desktop Layout: 769px to a max of 1232px. Inherits styles from: Mobile Layout and Tablet Layout. */
@media only screen and (min-width: 769px) {
.gridContainer {
#article {
    margin-left: 0;
#Examples {
    text-align: center;
.zeroMargin_desktop {
margin-left: 0;
.hide_desktop {
display: none;
@media only screen and (min-width:1024px){
#article #Examples #example1 {
    width: 23%;
    padding-left: 1%;
    padding-right: 1%;
    padding-top: 16px;
    padding-bottom: 16px;
#article #Examples #example2 {
    width: 23%;
    padding-left: 1%;
    padding-right: 1%;
    padding-top: 16px;
    padding-bottom: 16px;
#article #Examples #example3 {
    width: 23%;
    padding-left: 1%;
    padding-right: 1%;
    padding-top: 16px;
    padding-bottom: 16px;
#article #Examples #example4 {
    width: 23%;
    padding-left: 1%;
    padding-right: 1%;
    padding-top: 16px;
    padding-bottom: 16px;
#Examples {
    min-height: 340px;
And here is a 300x300 grey image i'm using as an example holder:
Thanks for taking the time all,
Jeff

Try this in a new, blank document:
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>HTML5 with Pure CSS Rollovers</title>
<style>
-moz-box-sizing: border-box;
-webkit-box-sizing: border-box;
box-sizing: border-box;
body {
font-family:Segoe, "Segoe UI", "DejaVu Sans", "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, sans-serif;
font-size:100%;
#rollover a {
display: inline-block;
position: relative;
margin-right: 2%;
text-decoration: none;
color: #FFF;
#rollover a span {
display: block;
visibility: hidden;
background-color: #3CC;
position: absolute;
z-index: 100;
left: 0;
top: 0;
font-size: 13px;
font-weight:bold;
line-height: 1.2;
color: #FFF;
text-align: center;
border: 5px solid orange;
padding: 5px;
width: 200px;
min-height: 125px;
#rollover a:hover span,
#rollover a:active span,
#rollover a:focus span { visibility: visible; }
#rollover a:hover,
#rollover a:focus { visibility: visible; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="rollover">
<p>
<a href="#"><img alt="description" src="http://placehold.it/200x125">
<span> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
Mauris vitae libero lacus, vel hendrerit nisi!
Maecenas quis velit nisl, volutpat viverra felis. </span></a>
<a href="#"><img alt="description" src="http://placehold.it/200x125">
<span> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
Mauris vitae libero lacus, vel hendrerit nisi!
Maecenas quis velit nisl, volutpat viverra felis. </span></a>
<a href="#"><img alt="description" src="http://placehold.it/200x125">
<span> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
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Maecenas quis velit nisl, volutpat viverra felis. </span></a>
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Fireworks Rollover previews OK from Dreamweaver, breaks when uploaded

Hi,
I'm trying to add popup menus to the menu bar for one of my clients. Everything looks great when I preview the page in Firefox, Flock and Explorer. However, when I upload the page, the rollover behavior quits working for the menu items with popup menus and the popups do not display in either Firefox or Flock. In Explorer, I get bunches of script error messages.
Here's the location of the uploaded page: http://www.davidmontgomerypaintings.com/new/index.htm
I also attached the .png file below.
The "Gallery," "About" and "Events" buttons are the three with the rollover behavior and popup menu issues.
I have a Flash animation on the page and had used the transparent command to allow the popup menus to overlay the animation sequence. I thought that was the problem, so I removed the transparent parameter and used Fireworks to located the popup menus above the animation sequence. Same result.
I had the "Use CSS for Popup Menus" and the "Write CSS to an external file" options turned off in Fireworks because we are avoiding CSS on this site (easier for client to edit later on). I went in and turned both of those on, wrote new html code from Fireworks, opened Dreamweaver and used the edit in fireworks option to update the html code changes. Same result.
Does anyone have any ideas what the problem is? Help. This is getting really frustrating.

Actually, this did help the rollover behavior.
However, the popups still do not show up on the
page I was editing, the new index page. Weirdly
enough, if you click on any other page on the
entire site, the pop up menus now work. They
didn't before. And I didn't make any edits on any
page other than the index page, they work as
originally designed and use all the code from the
original (ie. last week's) Fireworks menu bar file.
So, I don't quite get it. If the.js and .css
files were written based upon the new Fireworks
menu bar I created via the editing today, and
this is what I uploaded, why would that make the
original menu bar work? These pages even work in
Internet explorer now. The only page that doesn't
work is the index.htm page, the one I've been
messing with all day! LOL Maybe I need to go back
to my idea that this is linked to the Flash
animation and the transparent parameter.
By the way, I tried copying the table with the
menu bar from one of the working pages to the index page with no luck.
Thanks for the idea though. It may have gotten me
part way to the final solution.

Why do my rollover buttons quit working when I burn my project to a DVD?

Hi
I have a reel of my work built and everything functions when I simulate the project in DVD Studio Pro. However, when I burn the project to a DVD, my rollover buttons no longer work )and the quality of my work (menus, images, and videos) becomes very poor. I created my layered rollover buttons and menus using Photoshop. How can I resolve these issues?
Thanks

Welcome to the discussions... Eric has the answer for you - you won't get a rollover effect when you use photoshop layer based menus because of the way that these become a series of different menus when the disc is built. You most certainly can get rollover effects if you use a standard overlay menu type.
The reasons for using a layer menu are largely confined to situations where you absolutely must reveal some contextual information when a user selects a button, and where this information must use a common area of the menu to all of the other buttons that do this. In all other situations avoid using them if you can, as they are so limited, offer slow playback to the end user, need more than one mouse click to activate a button and don't support audio or video backgrounds.
Use a standard overlay and you won't have these issues.

Letterbox overlays with tracks

When creating a 16:9 MENU in dvd studio pro 4 you only need one 16:9 overlay image file and dvd studio sorts out the letterbox issue.
However, I am using TRACKS as menus, using subtitle streams to create buttons and attach overlays. When viewed on a hardware dvd player setup to 16:9 wide the overlays appear fine. But if you setup the dvd player to 4:3 letterbox the overlay highlights are incorrect.
To solve this I used a 2nd subtitle stream and attached 4:3 letterbox overlay images. I then used this script to select the subtitle stream from the dvd players setup:
mov GPRM 1, SPRM 14
and GPRM 1, 3072
Set System Stream St(subtitle stream1) (on) if (GPRM1 = 3072)
Set System Stream St(subtitle stream2) (on) if (GPRM1 = 0)
Exit Pre-Script
This worked great on MacOS dvd player, all hardware players I've tried and WinDVD on a PC. However, in dvd studio simulator and more worryingly PowerDVD on PC it does not work! It appears to be playing as 16:9 wide but using the 4:3 letterbox overlays (subtitle stream 2) - which obviously looks wrong!
QUESTIONS:
1. How do computer software players decide whether to play 16:9 dvds as 16:9 wide or 4:3 letterbox? - I can't find any preferances to set this.
2. Does anyone know if this is a DVD Studio Pro issue or a PowerDVD issue?
3. Any suggestions on alternative ways to approach this problem?
Many Thanks,
Pete.

Take a look at these threads, not sure if it is the same issue(?)
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4562193&#4562193
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4492519&#4492519
If I understand correctly I think what you are trying to do is not possible but you can fake it a bit http://dvdstepbystep.com/rollover.php
But you may mean this - where the background movie moves into position and then apply overlays(?)
http://dvdstepbystep.com/motion.php

Muse: Change appearance with a rollover state button

Hi,
I'm a newbie user of Muse (demo actually), trying to duplicate a simple "mouseover' html effect in Muse with a state widget to control appearance of an overlay graphic element on a page. Can I pop in a gif on top of a base element (also gif) so it aligns properly?
What is required to simulate this simple mouseover effect? Is it going to involve a layer, or a state widget to control it? Both?? I viewed the method by which a background or text can be changed and assume that a similar thing can be done to a placed graphic- make it appear on mouseover (rollover). Alas, it doesn't seem to be. Can you help?

Thanks, Brad. I'll give that a try. mouseover widget doesn't cut it. Unless I can cascade them. I need to make the overlay appear and disappear on mouseover, if that makes sense. To see it work the 'old way' have a look here: Techworks Pro: Services
Once we figured it out, it was pretty simple to build. Muse has so far made it quite challenging! May be a learning curve.

Simple buttons overlaying movie button

Using Flash MX Professional 2004...
I'm trying to create a menu using movie clips of sliding
images with roll-over and roll-out effects. Within those movies I'd
like to overlay simple submenu item buttons.
My work-in-progress
can be viewed here. In the example, when rolled-over, the
leftmost image displays a button labeled 'Menu Item 1'. However,
the 'Menu Item 1' button does not respond to my mouse roll-over.
Is there a way to accomplish this? I hope I have been clear
enough.
Thanks...

I don't see any rollover effect on anything except the images
that display aunder the menu buttons. If the movie loads over them,
then I wouldn't expect to see them change with a rollover... mainly
because they aren't visible at that point.
You may have to explain the problem a little better,because
for what I can see, there isn't one, except that you possibly don't
have content for the other buttons yet.
Your problem, whatever it might be, is most likely in your
code, so if you can show the code and explain what you want it to
do, then it will be easier to assess what might be wrong.

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