Tutorial 3.D. - Add Show Main Menu Action

What you will learn in this section:

How to add an Action
How to use the Show Main Menu action

To make your main menu appear automatically when the menu loop title is played, we will apply an Action. Actions are used to create all of the interactivity on your Blu-ray disc. Actions can be applied to title/chapter events and button elements in your project. They are executed when those events occur or when the button is pressed.

To make your main menu appear when the Menu Loop title is played:

Display the Playlist by clicking the Playlist tab
Click the Start Event for the Main Menu Loop title to display the Action editor window in the Control Panel.
Right-click in the Action editor windows to display the action list
Select Menu Actions > Menu Actions > Show Main Menu Block. The “Show Main Menu” action appears in the Action Editor Window.

Most Actions have parameters that you set using pull-down lists or simple text entry. The Show Main Menu action has two parameters: Set Name (this is the set that you want to display when the menu shows) and Focus Button (this determines which button is selected (ie. highlighted) when the menu shows.

Use the pull-down list to select “Main Menu Set” for the Set name. (Your Main menu only has one set so this will be selected by default).
Use the pull-down list to select “MM Play Film” for the Focus Button. (This button is the first button in your set in the menu elements tree, so it will be selected by default by the Action)

Show me:

Quick Compile and review your project in the softplayer. You will see that your main menu now appears automatically when the menu loop plays.