Tutorial 4.B. - Author the 2nd Set
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Tutorial 4.B. - Author the 2nd Set

 
What you will learn in this section:

  • How to remove Remote Control navigation
  • How to use the Load New Set in Menu Block Action
To navigate to the Chapters 6-10 set, we will use the Load new Set in Menu Block Action. Keep in mind when you are designing your menus that a menu block can have an unlimited number of sets, but only one set can be visible at any one time.

We will add the Load new Set in Menu Block Action to the appropriate left and right arrow keys of the buttons that appear visually at the left and right of the menu block, so that the new set loads seamlessly when the viewer arrows left and right through the chapter buttons.

  1. Expand the menu elements view for the button called “Chapter 5″ in the Chapters Submenu>Chapters 1-5 Set using the grey arrow. You will see the five remote control events.
  2. Select the Right Arrow event to display the Action Editor window.
  3. Right-click in the Action Editor Window to display the Actions list and select Menu Actions>Menu Actions>Load new Set in Menu Block.

The Load new Set in Menu Block Action has three parameters to set.

  1. Choose the Chapters submenu from the “Menu Block Name” pulldown list.
  2. Choose “Chapters 6-10 Set” from the “Set Name” pulldown list.
  3. Choose the button called “Chapter 6″ from the Focus Button pulldown list.

By adding this Action, the viewer will now see the Chapters 6-10 buttons appear in the Chapters submenu when they arrow right from the Chapter 5 button. There is one more important step to do to complete the authoring for this navigation.

  1. Click the “Chapter 5″ button in the menu elements list to display its properties in the Control Panel.
  2. Click the Remote Control tab to view the remote control navigation settings. You will see that the Right Button is set to “Chapter 1″. This occurred when you automatically applied horizontal navigation to the set in Tutorial 4.A.

This remote control setting will conflict with the Load new Set in Menu Block Action that you applied to the right Arrow event, so you must remove it from the remote control setting so that your authoring will funtion properly.

  1. In the Remote Control tab, Use the Right Button pulldown list to select the blank setting at the top of the pulldown list. This clears the remote control navigation setting.

You have now successfully authored the Load new Set in Menu block action for the Chapter 5 button. Now you need to author the same functionality to three other buttons to complete the desired navigation effect.

  1. Expand the menu elements view for the button called “Chapter 6″ in the Chapters Submenu>Chapters 6-10 Set using the grey arrow. You will see the five remote control events.
  2. Select the Left Arrow event to display the Action Editor window.
  3. Right-click in the Action Editor Window to display the Actions list and select Menu Actions>Menu Actions>Load new Set in Menu Block.
  4. Choose the Chapters submenu from the “Menu Block Name” pulldown list.
  5. Choose “Chapters 1-5 Set” from the “Set Name” pulldown list.
  6. Choose the button called “Chapter 5″ from the Focus Button pulldown list.
  7. Click the “Chapter 6″ button in the menu elements list to display its properties in the Control panel.
  8. Click the Remote Control tab to view the remote control navigation settings. You will see that the Left Button is set to “Chapter 5″.
  9. Clear the remote control navigation setting for the Left Button by selecting the blank setting at the top of the pulldown list.
Show me:

Quick Compile and Review your project in a softplayer.

You will see that you are half-way there. When you arrow right from the Chapter 5 button the Chapter 6-10 Set loads and when you arrow left from the Chapter 6 button the Chapters 1-5 Set loads. But if you arrow left from the Chapter 1 button the highlight loops back to Chapter 5 without changing the set, and likewise if you arrow right from the Chapter 10 button the highlight moves to Chapter 6 without changing the set.

To complete the navigation authoring you must follow the same steps as outlined above for the Chapter 1 button (follow steps 10-18 because you will apply the Load new Set in Menu block action to the left arrow event) and do the same for the Chapter 10 button (follow steps 1-9 because you will apply the Load new Set in Menu block action to the right arrow event).

The following video shows the process. Watch the video and then try it on your own.

Show me:

Most of the navigation for the Chapters submenu is now complete, however, your viewer has no way of navigating back to the Main Menu from the Chapters submenu. We will do this in the next tutorial.