You can not make TRUELY custom buttons inb Photoshop

Question

After several weeks of research, dozens of forum posts and replies, I have come to the conclusion that only BASIC, SIMPLE buttons can be made in Photoshop and ported into DVDSP where the only attribute for the selected state is a highlighted background. (ver 3.x)
One of the reasons for needing to create a custom button is for outlined text. This is needed to be able to see smaller buttons on a picture backgrounded menu where there is a lot of dark/ bright spots. Even when porting into DVDSP a button that is outlined text (by applying "Stroke" to the text and rasterizing) the text is solid when in DVDSP.
I was able to do a lot to buttons in Adobe Encore, I can make a line appear when selected as well as change the background color. It was simple to do. Each button was a single .psd file with a Specific name for each Layer SET, not layer. It seems that buttons in DVDSP are embedded objects within a master file.
I defy anyone to create a button for DVDSP (or say how) with the following attributes:
Not Selected--->Outlined text, nothing else
Selected------->Same text, with a line above and a line below and slightly highlighted background.
Activated (optional) Same as selected but with a different highlight color.
Thanks
Mike
G5   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

Answer 1

I am not sure if I am understanding the issue, did you look at the examples in the other post?
http://dvdstepbystep.com/newmap.php
http://dvdstepbystep.com/qm.php
If I understand what you want, create an overlay with 3 colors, the Black, Blue and Red with the Chroma keys, the outline is Black in the file, the lines are Blue in the file and and the Highlights Red in the file
1.) Selected - Map Black to whatever percentage color you want, Map Blue and Red to 0 percent
2.) Selected- Map Black to whatever percentage color you want, Map Blue for the line Color/Precentage and then Red to a color semi transparent number (lower numbers more transparent) which will highlight/tint the background
2.) Active - Map Black to whatever percentage color you want, Map Blue for the line Color/Precentage and then Red to a color semi transparent number (lower numbers more transparent) which will highlight/tint the background
Not sure if you envision something else for the highlight on the background? If you mean change the actual background color of the entire background you probably want to use layered menus