Preventing Overlapping Items

Clark711

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Feb 22, 2015 12:28

Is there a good tutorial, or just plain good advice, to prevent this ... ?

"Either a menu thumbnail (menu caption) or the navigation buttons are
currently overlapping. Try adjust them for this disc format."

Does this adjustment always have to be trial-and-error ?

I have this problem when I try to make the Menu's preview videos larger - as large as possible. I do have "Auto-Align" turned ON.

It's just that I would prefer having larger video preview windows, and there appears to be plenty of real estate on the menu screen for larger preview windows. But I guess I over-lap something, even though they don't look over-lapped.

Thanks,

Clark

ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

Feb 22, 2015 12:52

Hi Clark -

If you have the auto-align feature turned on, PDR13 will adjust the button size & position as you add new ones. If you then modify what PDR has done by resizing or re-positioning, you need to be careful that the surrounding "frames" on the thumbnail buttons aren't touching.

The actual thumbnails may have space between them but not the frames (they're not really called frames). Think of the extra bit as "personal space"

Cheers - Tony


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Clark711

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Feb 22, 2015 15:57

Tony,

Thanks.... I guess I was lazy, thinking that PD13 would keep my buttons from over-lapping when I re-sized them, with auto-align ON. But auto-align only helps with new buttons ?

So I carefully checked for each "frame" touching, corrected those that did, and the problem went away.

That "empty" space below each button is actually quite a lot. I had wanted to put my Chapter names (the Items) much closer to each preview video window, but PD13 apparently won't let me use that "empty space".

ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

Feb 22, 2015 17:24

Clark -

That "empty" space isn't really empy. It's inhabited by a mask & frame you can't see.

About the labels... I used to think that too, till senior contributor Jeff (JL_JL) pointed out the error in my thinking. The labels can overlap the thumbnails because they're not "active". It's the thumbnails that are active, unless you're using a text only menu.

The attached screenshot is of a menu that burns without error and functions correctly in the player.

Cheers - Tony


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Clark711

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Feb 22, 2015 19:24

Tony,

Thanks very much. That does help a lot, to know that the "Items" or labels can overlap into the button area. That means I can place the video chapter names directly underneath the video preview windows.

Appreciate the good info.

Clark