| Not all text needs to be in service of buttons or submenusedit and add your own text boxes. The following steps apply to changing the contents of text blocks; in the next chapter, I'll cover more settings such as changing the font and style. To edit text: 1. | Click once to select a button or title, and then click again to select the text (Figure 20.21). Don't double-click the button, however, because that will either play its movie or go to a submenu. Figure 20.21. Click a button twice (but don't double-click) to edit its text. | 2. | Type your text. Hit Return or Enter to break the linean improvement that frustrated me in early versions of iDVD (Figure 20.22). Figure 20.22. Create multi-line text boxes by pressing Return or Enter. | 3. | Click outside the text field to deselect it and accept your changes. |
To add new text: 1. | Choose Add Text from the Project menu, or press Command-K. A new text block appears (Figure 20.23). Figure 20.23. Add text blocks that aren't buttons or submenus. | 2. | Edit the text as described above. | 3. | Position the text by dragging it where you want it; unlike the default behavior of buttons and menu titles, which snap to an invisible grid, a new text block can be placed anywhere on the screen. (See the next chapter for more on positioning buttons.) |
To delete text: 1. | Click a text block once to select it. | 2. | Press the Delete key, or choose Delete from the Edit menu. The text vanishes in a puff of smoke. |
To insert special characters: 1. | Click a text block once to select it, then click again to edit it. | 2. | Choose Special Characters from the Edit menu. The Character Palette appears. | 3. | Select the character you want to use in the palette. | 4. | Click the Insert button to add the character to your text. |
Tips | | Some televisions don't display everything that you see in iDVD's screen. To make sure your text will appear, choose Show TV Safe Area from the View menu, or press Command-T, and position the text and buttons within the area that's not shaded (Figure 20.24). Figure 20.24. Items placed outside the safe area may get cropped out when played back on a television.
If you're working in widescreen mode, choose Show Standard Crop Area from the View menu, or press Command-Option-T, to see where a standard-definition television showing a full-screen image will crop your menu (Figure 20.25). Figure 20.25. The edges of widescreen projects can get hacked off by standard-definition TVs, but it won't matter if you use the Standard Crop Area indicator to position your text.
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