User Guide

342 Chapter 9 Creating Menus Using the Layered Method
Drop Palette for Layered Menus—Dragging Project Elements
The following section lists the choices in the Drop Palette that appear when you drag
project elements from the Outline or Graphical tab to an empty area or a button in a
layered menu.
Dragging an Existing Track to an Empty Area
The following options appear in the Drop Palette:
Create Button
The default action.
• Creates a button at this menu location.
• Adds a link from the new button to the first marker of the track.
• Sets the track’s End Jump setting to this menu (if it has not already been set).
Create Button and Chapter Index
• Creates a button on this menu to link to the first of the new chapter index menus.
• Creates one or more new chapter index menus (using the standard method),
depending on the number of markers and the button layout used.
• Opens the Choose Template or Layout Style dialog so you can choose the template
or layout style to use for the chapter index menus.
• Links each chapter marker from the track to buttons in the chapter index menus.
• Assigns the video from each marker to its button’s thumbnail.
• Sets the track’s End Jump setting to this menu (if it has not already been set).
Dragging an Existing Track to a Button
The following options appear in the Drop Palette:
Connect to Track
The default action.
• Adds a link from the button to the first marker of the track.
• Sets the track’s End Jump setting to this menu (if it has not already been set).
Create Chapter Index
• Links the button to the first of the new chapter index menus.
• Creates one or more new chapter index menus (using the standard method),
depending on the number of markers and the button layout used.
• Opens the Choose Template or Layout Style dialog so you can choose the template
or layout style to use for the chapter index menus.
• Links each chapter marker from the track to buttons in the chapter index menus.
• Assigns the video from each marker to its button’s thumbnail.
• Sets the track’s End Jump setting to this menu (if it has not already been set).