That's what I mean.
It works until you delete the message and then it flashes constantly from then on.

Anyone know how to figure this out.
TIA

OIC!

But its flashing the wrong box!

Your other box?

Currently Active Users Box Flashes!! not the PM box!

What BB are you using?
I don't know why you would be having it flash the wrong box.
Did you follow to a T.
I am using 2.2.1 just like here and followed the directions to a T and have it flashing the correct box, but When you have no PM it doesn't flash (correct) When you get PM it flashes (correct) When you read PM it stops flashing (correct) When you delete your PM it starts flashing (wrong)

I have even viewed the source here and configured the template correctly. It just keeps flashing if you delete your PM.
This leads me to believe that there must be a change or addition made to the root/index.php

What do you guys think?

Someone please help with this.

Thanks.

^^^UP^^^

Can any body help me with this?

The PM bar blinks all the time.

I'm getting a Java script error as well. Says "set" is undefined.

Please help with this buddy.
The pm bar is constantly blinking.
TIA

Just uninstall it and try again...

I was putting it before instead of after the }.

It is working great now.

Thanx.

Works great thanks, im on 2.2.1 as well

It didn't work for me. I'm on version 2.2.1 and I did everything right, I double checked. And tried the appendages... but no luck..

I was sending myslef a pm to see if my new hack worked, and when I went to send myslef the pm I wouldn't get a message, I would just get a white screen. So I unistalled the hack to see if the hack was the reason why I was getting this problem... well it wasn't, so does anyone know what would cause this problem? thank you.

EDIT: nevermind I fixed this problem. For some reason even though I had remarked something out with a <!-- and a --> it was showing the trailing -->

it works on my 2.0.3?

FireFly I need a little help. After I installed this hack I got a "-->" above the row where it says Forum, thread, posts, etc. I thought it was the in the pmlogged template at the end of the script where it says:

but when I removed the --> from that it didn't load anything below the PM message. I did however move my PM message box up top.

Can you please help me as this is rather annoying to just have text there. If I take out the whole block of the script code it takes away the -->.

Please help!

Thanks.

Remove what you removed and also remove the <!-- from the starting of the script.

AWESOME SCRIPT!

Worked great on my vB 2.2.1!

THX!! Good work!!

I'm using background images in the table header as well. What would the call be to have the row below it to blink?

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?

I checked in my styles and don't believe they are the same.

Sorry I cant help then...
Maybe Firefly will catch this and be able to assist....

I have a problem. When using IE it flashes, but when I use Opera it doesn't, and I'm sure JS is enabled in Opera. Any ideas?

Maybe Opera just doesn't support that code.

Ok, I read, and there were so many posts here.

I installed this hack, just like FireFly said, and right outta the box it works awesome.

My only question is:

I want the bar to blink yellow ( #FF0000 ) but I am not totally sure as to where to put that.

Can someone just give me a little nudge as to where to put that, I really appreciate it.

excellent! thanks alot:):):)

this hack doesn't work for me, I need a person who can install hacks on my Forumz, and Expert!!!

this is a great hack. I have only just noticed it when i logged on to vb.org and i had a PM! never thought i would get one of those. Anyway thanks firefly.

2.2.3 is a GO! Nice!

Hey Chen I have a ? for you. How can you set the color of the blinking PM bar? The color it is now doesn't work b/c it's almost the exact same color as the cat. bar it's on and it's hard to tell when it's flashing. How do I make it whatever color I want? Thanks and great hack! :)