We want the framed menu button to have the following behavior. When it is being highlighted, pressing the up or down arrow key on the remote control will display the first menu page automatically. DVD-Lab Pro provides both auto-routing and manual routing functions for button highlighting. This behavior can be implemented by creating a dummy button with the "Rectangle" tool from the icon tool bar as following.

The dummy button must have the following attributes: 1) it must be linked to the first page menu (Menu 1) so when it is selected, the first menu is displayed; 2) the auto-action checkbox must be set so that when the dummy button is selected or highlighted, the link is executed automatically without having to press the Enter key on the remote control; 3) the dummy button is set to "Invisible All" so it cannot be seen when it is either in selected or highlighted state.

We now uncheck the auto-routing mode to do the manual routing. In this project, we do only the routing for the up and down key. You can easily add the same behavior to the left and right key if desired. To perform the up link, we select the up arrow icon on the tool bar, drag from inside the frame object and drop it to the dummy button. DVD-Lab Pro creates a navigation link so that when the thumbnail button is highlighted and the up arrow is pressed, the dummy button is selected. Since this dummy button has the auto-action attribute, its link (Menu 1) is executed automatically. This effectively displays the first page of the menu. The dummy button is always invisible so the behavior is that pressing the up arrow key (while highlighting the framed button) displays the first menu page.

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