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Tutorial 9.E. – Assign Sticky Button Group and Button Association Actions
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Tutorial 9.E. – Assign Sticky Button Group and Button Association Actions

What you will learn in this section:

  • You can have 2 sticky buttons groups operating on the same menu
  1. Display the Menu Elements window by clicking the menu Elements tab.
  2. Click the button “SubEnglish” in the Bonus menu to display its properties in the Control Panel.
  3. Use the Sticky Button pull down list to select “Subtitle Track”.

This adds the “SubEnglish” button to the “SubtitleTrack” sticky button group. Now we’ll add the “SubFrench” , “SubGerman” and the “SubOFF” buttons to the same sticky button group.

  1. Click the button “SubFrench” in the Bonus menu to display its properties in the Control Panel.
  2. Use the Sticky Button pull down list to select “Subtitle Track”.
  3. Click the button “SubGerman” in the Bonus menu to display its properties in the Control Panel.
  4. Use the Sticky Button pull down list to select “Subtitle Track”.
  5. Click the button “SubOff” in the Bonus menu to display its properties in the Control Panel.
  6. Use the Sticky Button pull down list to select “Subtitle Track”.
Now that you have added the buttons to the same Sticky Button Group, we need to add a special kind of Action that associates the buttons with a subtitle track.  When a menu button is associated with an subtitle track, that button will automatically display in its activated state if the specified subtitle track is active.  This way, if the viewer uses the remote control to change subtitle tracks during playback (instead of using the pop-up menu) the correct button will still display in the activated state.
  1. Click the button “SubEnglish” in the Bonus menu and expand the view to display the five remote control events and the On Show event.
  2. Click the On Show event to display the Action editor in the Control Panel.  Actions assigned to the On Show event will execute any time the button appears on screen.
  3. Right-click in the Action Editor window and notice that there is a new option at the top of the Action list: “Button Association Action.”  This option only appears when you have selected the On Show event for a button.
  4. Select “Associate this Button to Subtitle track”.
  5. Select “Main Video” from the Playlist Name pull down list.
  6. Select “1″ from the Subtitle Track list.  Remember that your English subtitle track is the 1st subtitle track in the tree for the Main Video Segment.  This means that it is subtitle track 1.
  7. Repeat steps 1-6 for the “SubFrench” and “SubGerman” buttons.  Your French subtitle track is Track “2″ and your German subtitle track is Track “3″.
  8. For the “SubOff” button, add the Action: “Associate This Button To Subtitles Off” to the On Show event.
  9. Select “Main Video” from the Playlist Name pull down list.  There are no other parameters for the “Associate This Button To Subtitles Off” action.
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You’ll see now that when you make an subtitle selection such as French using the setup menu, then display the menu again while the main video is playing, the French button appears in its highlighted state, indicating that the French subtitle track is the active track.

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