User Guide

9
Item Descriptions for Menus Do Not Retain Their Languages
If you create a menu that supports multiple languages and export an item description
for it, the item description will not contain any language attributes. For example, if you
configure a menu to support three languages, with each language having different
backgrounds and text objects, and export the menu as an item description, the item
description will only retain the background for the first language and any buttons that
have been configured. All text will be deleted (although the text objects will remain).
Last Letter in Menu Text Might Be Partially Clipped
When you add text to a text object or button in the Menu Editor, especially if it is
italicized, it is possible that the last character might be partially clipped. Whether or not
this happens depends on what the last letter is and the font you are using. You can
work around this issue by adding one or more spaces to the end of the text.
Overly Large Font Size Can Make a Text Object Disappear
If you set the font size so large that the text does not fit vertically on the screen, the text
object disappears. As long as you still have the text in the text object selected, you can
enter a smaller font size and the text will reappear. If it is not selected, you can choose
Edit > Select All to select it (and all other items on the menu) and enter a smaller font
size. (If there are other text objects, this change will also affect their font size.)
Button Assets Do Not Automatically Update
If a button’s asset is automatically set after a Drop Palette action, such as dragging a
track to a button in the Menu Editor, the button’s asset does not automatically update if
you later change the asset used by that track. You must manually choose the button’s
asset if you want it to match the new one used in the track.
Changing the Simple Highlight Color in Apple Templates Can Create Bad Edges
The Apple templates use the same highlight color for all four of the color mapping
settings for the template’s buttons. Since the template reduces the opacity for the dark
gray and light gray color mapping settings, the buttons have pseudo anti-aliased
edges. The Apple templates are also set to the simple overlay mode.
When you change a highlight color in the simple overlay mode, you only change one
of the four color mapping settings (the black one), which can lead to a situation where
the primary highlight color has been changed while the other highlight colors,
generally only seen on the button’s edges, retain the original color. For example, if the
template uses a red highlight color and you use the simple overlay mode to change
the color to blue, the button’s new blue highlight color will have red edges.
To avoid having different highlight colors appear on the button edges when modifying
the Apple templates, select the Advanced overlay mode in the Color Settings tab in the
Menu Inspector, and set all four of the color mapping colors to the same color.