MacroSystem Arabesk Ver.6 - Manual (Page 16)

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aspect ratio will be the same as for the original. After switching
to ‘free - stretched’, you will be able to change the height and
width independently of each other.
The button can also be moved by clicking on the desired
button and then taking the mouse pointer to the top left corner .
The mouse pointer now changes to a quadruple arrow . Click
once on the left trackball button and roll with the trackball to
the desired position, the button will move there . Just try it .
Tip: Size and position changes are confirmed with a left button
click and canceled with a right button click.
2.4.2.2 Designing menus with the toolbar
Of course, you can also design your main and chapter menus
with the help of the toolbar at the bottom .
In the background, you are shown how the main menu or
chapter menus will look, while the foreground has a toolbar
with the options to design disc menus .
At the left border of the toolbar, there is a button to move
the toolbar to the top or bottom border of the screen and a
button to shrink the toolbar, so that you can see more of the
menu preview in the design window .
There is also a
button in the top left corner of the toolbar
(depending on the options, it can also look as follows: ,
) . This opens the ‘Copy changes to other elements’ dia-
log window where you can activate one of the options ‘Copy
changes only to actual element’, ‘Copy changes also to equal
elements’ and ‘Copy changes to all elements’ by putting a
checkmark next to the option you need .
In this dialog field, the option ‘Copy changes only to actual
element’ is selected by default .
The toolbar for editing chapter menus contains also a
button . This button also opens a dialog window with the
abovementioned options, as well as the additional options
‘Copy changes only on actual page’ and ‘Copy changes on
all pages’ . Both of these additional options can be selected,
independent of the other options . The option ‘Copy changes
on all pages’ is selected by default .
These options can be used to simplify the design of menus,
and to save time . For example, this makes it possible to apply
the same action to all buttons (items) with a single click or to
design the background for a menu with several screens only
once and apply it to all screens of the menu .
At the right border of the toolbar, there are the buttons Set-
tings (
), ‘Menu templates’ ( ) and ‘Back to Arabesk main
menu’ ( ) .
The two first buttons open a new dialog window with various
setting options with respect to working in menu design . More
about this follows:
Menu templates: Clicking the ‘Menu templates’ button brings
you to the menu of the same name, in which you can load
menu templates or save menus that have been created . It
speaks for itself that the button Load in the ‘Menu templates’
dialog window can also be used here to update the main/
chapter menu that is now in Edit .
When you switch from the toolbar to the menu templates, you
also have the opportunity to assign different menu templates
to the main menu and the chapter menu . Unlike when loading
a template from the Arabesk main menu, where always both
main and chapter menus are loaded, only the main or chapter
menu is loaded here, depending on the menu one is currently
working on .
Settings: This button opens the ‘Settings menu edit’ dialog
window . Here, you can use the selection button ‘Menu format’
to specify the format of your main menu . You can also choose
between the settings ‘As first movie’, 4:3 and 16:9 . One usually
leaves the setting as ‘As first movie’ . The menu will then have
the same format as the first movie . The format will be shown in
brackets .
The selection button ‘View size’ determines the size of the
Design window in menu design . You can have the menu
displayed on your screen Complete(ly) (the border areas will
then usually be in the invisible overscan area), Visible, i .e . the
main/chapter menu will be reduced to fit the visible part of the
screen in order to also display the normally invisible border
areas (this setting uses the visible size which can be specified
under Bogart SE – Settings – Screen as the visible area), or
Small, in which case the main/chapter menu is reduced to fit
the area above/below the toolbar .
Tip: When the Complete option has been selected, it is pos-
sible that elements put close to the border will be cut off or
invisible on some screens.
If Bogart SE is active in two-monitor mode, editing will happen
as described, on the first monitor. The second monitor will
display a full view of the current menu.
When you put a checkmark next to the Grid option, this cre-
ates an imaginary grid on your main/chapter menu to which
buttons and text elements are aligned . When you move the el-
ements or change their size, the grid will make it easier for you
to align the elements to each other . You can specify how fine
the grid should be with the corresponding slider (small values
result in a fine, narrow grid, large ones to a coarse, wide grid) .
In order to design main/chapter menus, you have the following
options at your disposal, which can be found below the top
center selection button: