Method for generating an on-screen menu

摘要

A method for generating an on-screen menu comprising menu buttons and other menu items, e.g. help text, is characterized in that one or more groups of menu buttons or menu items are defined, wherein a group comprises one or more menu buttons or menu items and has associated a defined area on the screen. A state is assigned to a button, the state being “enabled” or “disabled”, wherein only an enabled button or item may be displayed, and wherein within a group not more than one button or item may be enabled. The state of a button can be changed by commands associated with other buttons.

主权项

1. A method for generating a displayable menu page from data of a menu data segment, the menu page comprising separately rendered selectable menu buttons, comprising:
accessing definition of at least one group of two or more menu buttons from the menu data segment, wherein the definition of the at least one group in the menu data segment comprises a parameter indicating the number of menu buttons in a respective group of the at least one group, and wherein each of the two or more menu buttons has associated a defined area on a display and for each of the two or more menu buttons a reference number is defined, and each menu button that belongs to the displayable menu page is separately rendered, and wherein a menu button belongs to not more than one group of the at least one group; and assigning a state to each separately rendered menu button, the state being “enabled” or “disabled”, wherein only an enabled menu button is displayed, wherein a menu button in the “enabled” state may have a further state of “normal”, “selected” or “activated”, and wherein the menu button is considered to be a same menu button irrespective of its state being the “disabled” state, the “enabled” and “normal” state, the “enabled” and “selected” state or the “enabled” and “activated” state, and wherein not more than one menu button within a group may be enabled simultaneously.