Ernie,

There are several ways to add a background image/button.

One way, is to drag and drop a properly sized (240x320) graphic file (JPG, PNG, GIF) directly on to the remote in the editor. This will automatically drop the graphic on the remote as a button. This image might be a graphic file that you have on your desktop, or one you might find from the net. You can treat this now like a button.

Another way, would be to use one of the provided backgrounds from the templates, for example the blue background from the "Glass" template. If you hold the ALT key and drag the file from the Library Browser over to your remote, it will place the image as a button instead of a background. This works for any properly sized graphic in the templates.

Either of these options will give you a full screen button that you can manipulate the text to your liking.

Now, if you want to make any button be a label, but not have that button respond to button presses, you would select the button you want to use, right click, go to the properties of that button, and under "button options", you would check the box for "Inactive".

You could also add custom text to a page that does not have anything on it. Give this a shot, it may be what you want.

Create a blank page, name it, then go to the lower left hand corner where the "tools" are. Select the "pencil" tool, and create a square box as big as you want on your blank page in the editor.

Next to those tools, over to the right a little bit, still on the bottom of the editor window, you will see a small button with 3 lines, this is the "line width" option, this will adjust the size of the border around the new "text area". You could leave it, or remove it.

Next, further to the right on the bottom, you will see the "color" options, and the last icon (paint bucket) will let let you choose "transparency" as an option so that you can have the text box become transparent and allow only the text to be seen.

Type in your text, and you're finished. You will end up with custom text box that you can use as a label, please wait page, or welcome screen.

Hope that helps.

Joey