Creating a Menu

[Guest Yachtsman1]

I have just returned from presenting my Spring AV show to our residents. The show had 14 exe files from various sources & compiled into a menu in my usual way. After the third exe finished instead of returning to the menu page, I got a distorted green shimmering screen. The menu is a manual version of the auto menu I posted last week. To get rid of the green screen I had to use the escape key & re-initiate the menu exe. This happened after the following exe so I resorted to initiating each remaining exe manually & all played & finished correctly. I don't know if this is a bug, my hardware or something to do with series 8? The menu is just under 1GB.

The menu was constructed on my new desktop & transferred to the laptop via a memory stick, it was fully tested on the desktop before transferring, & last Saturday tested on the LT, where I was ending the exe's early using the esc key & experienced a similar phenomena a couple of times, but put it down to not letting the exe's end naturally.

I've just checked the help files & can't find a "construct a menu" section. So the question is has anyone had any similar problems?

I will test the LT tomorrow using a menu constructed to run automatically to the menu page, with the menu page set to loop as described in my demo last week & report back..

Yachtsman1.

[Guest Yachtsman1]

Just to add a little more to the original post, the content of the menu is just under 1GB, but the menu exe is only 12MB. In case that caused raised eyebrows.

Yachtsman1.

[Guest Yachtsman1]

I have now reconfigured the menu that failed last night to a semi auto menu, meaning the opening title slides advance automatically to to the exe menu slide, this was re-set to loop, the 14 exe's are then initiated from links on the exe slide, after the 14th exe is finished I have a finish exe set to advance automatically, this has a link on the menu slide. When the end exe sequence finishes the show reverts back to the original menu screen. I could add a blank black slide to the end exe to close the show on a black screen, but as this show is now consigned to my archive, I've left it as it was. I have re-configured my Autumn show as above, tested it & all appears fine. The screen shots are from my Autumn show.

To conclude, IMO there is still a hole in the help files for a menu construction section.

Yeachtsman1.