Selecting objects


    Adobe Encore DVD gives you two main ways to select an object in a menu: using one of the selection tools or using the Layers palette. (See Understanding the Layers palette.) The toolbox contains two selection tools for objects. The tool you use depends upon if you want to move a layer set (such as a button and all its components) together as a unit or if you want to move individual elements.

    Illustration of Toolbox with these callouts: A. Selection tool B. Direct select tool C. Text tool D. Vertical text tool E. Zoom tool
    Toolbox A. Selection tool B. Direct select tool C. Text tool D. Vertical text tool E. Zoom tool

    The two selection tools are:

    Selection tool

    Selects layer sets or individual layers not in a layer set. Use this tool to select an entire button set (a button, its text, and subpictures together) so it can be manipulated as a unit.

    Direct select tool

    Selects individual layers or layers within layer sets so that they can be manipulated on their own. To select multiple layers, they must be all independent layers or all within the same layer set.

    When selecting objects, remember that each object is on a separate layer and that the layers are stacked one on top of another. Using the selection tools, you can select objects on lower layers as long as you click at a point where no other object overlaps. Using the Layers palette, you can easily select objects individually even when several elements overlap.

To select an object, layer set, or multiple objects:

  1. Open the menu you want to modify.
  2. Select the button, object, or layer set using one of these techniques:
    • Click the object directly in the Menu Editor window using the appropriate selection tool: the selection tool selection tool to select a layer set or independent layer; the direct select tool direct select tool to select a layer within a layer set. Shift-click each additional object.
    • Using the selection tool selection tool , drag a box (or marquee) around the object or objects in the Menu Editor window.
    • Click the Layers tab to activate it (or choose Window > Layers), and click the object's layer or the layer set. Shift-click each additional layer or layer set you want to select.

    Selection handles appear on all the selected items in the Menu Editor window. In addition to selection handles, button sets display a bounding box. This bounding box encompasses all elements within the button set and indicates the hot-zone or highlight region for the button.