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September 2006 - Posts

Wednesday, September 20, 2006 8:37 AM

Bare Bones HD DVD Interactivity

We spend a fair amount of time focusing on "cool" menus in HD DVD -- with animations, transparency, and so on -- but sometimes you just want to get a title out and all you really needs is a basic menu system. You may even have some assets already set
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Attachment(s): BareBonesMenu.zip
Monday, September 11, 2006 7:28 PM

Adding Picture-In-Picture to an HD DVD Title

Picture-in-Picture (PIP) is one of those "cool" features in HD DVD that looks really difficult but is really easy to do -- contrast that with so many other things that look simple or are taken for granted, but take forever to implement... That's not to
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Friday, September 08, 2006 8:55 AM

Using unsetProperty With Script Animations

A common theme lately has been confusion about the unsetProperty API used by scripts in HD DVD, but it's actually quite simple once you know the rules. One complication is the behaviour of the state properties, which act slightly differently than the
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Friday, September 01, 2006 11:42 AM

Scrolling Menus in 100% Pure Markup

After looking at drop-down menus in 100% pure markup , we turn our attention to scrolling lists. These can be used for things like chapter menus or other long lists of items. This demo is horizontal, but you could do it vertically also (and in fact, I
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