Works exactly as stated. I never could get this to work in 2.2.1 but I just upgraded to 2.2.2 and no problems whatsoever. Thanks for a great hack!!

RoC

I never got it to work. Got it to change colors when there was a PM, but never blinked.

This is what my code in forumhome_pmloggedin looks like, and it doesn't work:

<tr id="cat">

<td id="pmBox" bgcolor="{ categorybackcolor}" colspan="6"><a href="private.php?s=$session[sessionhash]" title="Click Here to Open Your Private Messages $inboxname"><normalfont color="#000000"><b>Private Messages</normalfont></b></a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#1C5780" align="center" valign="top"><img src="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/images/$lightbulb.gif" alt=""></td>
<td bgcolor="#13486D" colspan="5"><smallfont>
<b>$bbuserinfo[username]</b> - You have $newpm[messages] new message(s) since your last visit.<br>
(You have $unreadpm[messages] unread messages and $allpm[messages] total messages in all your folders.)</smallfont></td>
</tr>
<script language="JavaScript">
<!-- Begin
$pmblink pmBox.bgColor='#1D6AA0';
$pmblink setInterval("Timer()", 500);
$pmblink x=1;
function Timer() { x=1;
set=0;
}
if(x==1 && set==1) {
pmBox.bgColor='{*categorybackcolor*}';
set=1;
if(x==0 && set==1) {
pmBox.bgColor='#336D95';

x=0;
set=0;
}
}
// End -->
</script>

My board is different, so the PM info is in a welcome-type box, along with a bunch of other stuff, so this wasn't going to work for me. Then I tried editing the code without knowing what the heck I was doing, and I got the text to flash instead of the back of the table. But I didn't really like that, so I set it to make the back of the text flash (style), but then it gives me an error:

Line: 102
Char: 2
Error: Member not found
Code: 0
URL: (I don't think you need this and my board isn't open yet so I don't tell people the URL)

Does the style not work in the Javascript or something?

And this is what mine looks like:

<tr id="cat">
<td id="pmBox" bgcolor="#336D95" background="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/images/catagory_backing.gif" colspan="6"><a href="private.php?s=$session[sessionhash]" title="Click Here to Open Your Private Messages $inboxname"><normalfont color="#000000"><b>Private Messages</normalfont></b></a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#1C5780" align="center" valign="top"><img src="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/images/$lightbulb.gif" alt=""></td>
<td bgcolor="#13486D" colspan="5"><smallfont>
<b>$bbuserinfo[username]</b> - You have $newpm[messages] new message(s) since your last visit.<br>
(You have $unreadpm[messages] unread messages and $allpm[messages] total messages in all your folders.)</smallfont></td>
</tr>
<script language="JavaScript">
<!-- Begin
$pmblink pmBox.bgColor='#1D6AA0';
$pmblink setInterval("Timer()", 500);
$pmblink x=1;
function Timer() { x=1;
set=0;
}
if(x==1 && set==1) {
pmBox.bgColor='#336D95" background="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/images/catagory_backing.gif';
set=1;
if(x==0 && set==1) {
pmBox.bgColor='#336D95';

x=0;
set=0;
}
}
// End -->
</script>

Hi Firefly;
There is a template mod at vB.com that i want to incorporate along with this hack of yours (which i have been using for awhile and LOVE)

Any suggestions for making the 2 peacefully co-exist?

Thanks much (in advance ;) )

I got it working beautifully with yours FF
Thanks anyway!

So simple but really cool...

Thanks

I installed, but it isn't blinking. :( I couldn't have been more careful, either. I even changed:
to
to see if it would blink, but no change. My boards seem unchanged after this. I tried sending two different PMs to myself, too. Any ideas?

<edit> The color in the first code tag is actually a word that is getting parsed by vB </edit>

Hey Marc;
Are your categorybackcolor and tableheadbgcolor normally the same color?
Snyx posted about a problem with that here

Maybe that will help you?