Can you turn off the playfield menu while Instruction cards are shown?

[SixOfTwelve]

I've noticed a few of my visitors are confused with one aspect of the menu handling in PinballX.

Navigating with LEFT and RIGHT FLIPPER, pressing START to activate a menu and EXIT to cancel comes easy to most.

When flyer images or tutorial videos are shown on the backglass, it's also fairly obvious that you can quit them with the EXIT button.

What tends to confuse people is that when instruction cards are displayed, the whole menu is still visible on the playfield, and rather than pushing EXIT, they try to continue navigating with LEFT and RIGHT, trying to select an item from the (now unresponsive) menu.

Is there a way to turn off menu visibility as long as an instruction card is visible?

[Draco1962]

There's no way that I am aware of.

You could modify the instruction card with a note PRESS EXIT TO CONTINUE or similar verbiage as a workaround.

A feature that might also help would be an overlay on the playfield that could have an animated PRESS EXIT TO CONTINUE when the instruction card is displayed.

This would be a Feature Request to change or add functionality.

Post it here:

 

[SixOfTwelve]

Thanks, but editing 300+ instruction cards is hardly an option   (80% of them in SWF format, no less)

I've dropped a feature request. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

[Draco1962]

Agreed. Personally, I like the overlay as an option, something at the top of the playfield "blinking" gradually to get attention.