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This tab allows you to create menu items and specify how a user navigates around the menu.
- Menu Item Number: Every menu item has a unique menu item number: The first item you create is 1, the second is 2, and so on. Here you can navigate among the menu items you have created by clicking the Previous and Next buttons. All other options below correspond to the menu item you have selected.
- Add Menu Item: Click to create a new menu item. The Add Menu Item window will open.
- Active Image: This image serves as a cursor to visually inform the user what menu item is currently selected.
Inactive Image: This image appears beside the menu item when the user has another menu item selected.
Tip title Tip If you want nothing to appear beside a menu item when it is not selected, choose an Inactive image that matches the color of the background.
- Position: Adjust the position of your menu item by inputting specific numbers. Alternatively, you can click the active image in the preview image and drag it to the desired position. The inactive image will appear in the same spot when the menu item is not selected.
- X: The position of the menu item on the horizontal axis.
- Y: The position of the menu item on the vertical axis.
- Offset next: Check this box to specify an initial position for new menu items in relation to the most recent menu item.
- X: The amount of offset on the horizontal axis.
- Y: The amount of offset on the vertical axis.
- Selected Image: Click Browse to change the active image.
- Unselected Image: Click Browse to change the inactive image.
- Store image in cache: Check this box to store the corresponding image in the player cache. This ensures that the image will load quickly when switching between active/inactive states. Note that the player cache is limited—see this FAQ for more details.
Navigation
The Navigation section is where you determine how a user moves from one menu item to the next. Although the actions were previously defined in the General tab, this is where you specify how actions navigate among the specific menu items.The possible actions are Up, Down, Left, and Right. Each action has a dropdown list that displays the menu item number for each created menu item. By default, Noneis selected for each.
Selecting a number in the dropdown list will allow the user to navigate from the current menu item to the specified menu item by performing the corresponding action. Let’s say you are editing menu item number 1. If you click the dropdown list for the Down action and select 2, the user can now navigate from Menu item 1 to Menu item 2 by pressing the Downbutton. Remember, the buttons correspond to whatever you previously defined in the Navigation section of the Generaltab.
Enter
The Enter section is where you determine what happens when a user presses the Enter button on a particular Menu item. Select one of the following:
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