Hmm, i have logged in with my testuser and the posts in the private forums are still present.

A small modificatons to link direct to the first unread post

Find:

$bburl/showthread.php?s=&threadid

Chance to:

$bburl/showthread.php?s=&goto=newpost&threadid

A second modification i have made is to save the same file under a new name (ticker.php) and upload it, too.

Before uploading find in both files ticker.php and ticker2.php:

ticker.php?off=true" target=_self>

and change it to:

ticker2.php?off=true" target=_self>

Remove in ticker2.php:

<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="180">

Then the page is not reloaded, until the user reactivate the ticker. And the user also disappears from "Who is online" after the cookie timeout.

I uploaded an on and off image and put it in my folders, but they won't show up. Vbulletin's ticker's images won't show up either. Does anyone know why?

I really wish there was a way to put this in the IE progress bar at the bottom of the browser. I don't think that is possible, but that would be great. ;)

You have to edit the path for the images:

Try http://www.domain.com/forum/images/on.gif

instead of: images/on.gif

Worked great. Thanks man.

It seems you need right click and hit refresh for it to update.. Is this correct?? otherwise its just the same 10 threads over & over again.. Is there a way to make it auto refresh??

I might be wrong, but I think it refreshes every 3 minutes.

Does anyone know if it will work on Windows NT? I have a member who cannot get it to work. They said there is no place to select "Toolbars" when they right click.

About the images, in ticker.php the path is set to "/images", which is wrong if your images folder is a subdir of your forumdir. It should be just "images", without the slash thing in front of it.

And it works in Windows 2000. It might not work with an older browser version

If you view Who's Online it messes up the location of the user. Does anyone know a way to prevent the Who's Online to appear normal. I've attached the image of me using the ticker and viewing the Who's Online.

I think the hack is really usefull, but whats about

• a way to change the mode for e.g. the desktop or the taskbar (mode=taskbar or mode=desktop)
• a possibility to send the ticker into standby, because there isn't allways the need, that the ticker is runing
• a way so that the user can change the text size (on high resulutions 8pt is somewhat small)

Just my ideas :)