I guess this doesnt work with Netscape?

It works fine in IE, but I'm trying it with NS 6 and nothing happens... :ermm:

What does work with Nutscrape? It's junk. :tired:

Well I use IE, but I'm concerned about the rest of my visitors.

It looks like this goes above and beyond the 'blink PM' hack. All the tables in vb are messed up in Netscape 6. They are all sized incorrectly. Same goes for the text fields.

If you click on a smilie to insert it, it erases your text. Also... why are animated gifs moving at 10x the correct speed!! aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!!@#$!@!

:speechless:

EDIT: ok, looks like the smilies thing was a one time thing.. it works now.

This is with Netscape 6.2 btw. Tested on XP and NT4.

Will vb3 fix any of these issues? Mainly the table/textbox sizes?

Just edit the javascript code in the hack... replace the {replacement} with whatever color code you want.

Thats what I have as the javascript, it still doesnt work.

I've also tried:

pmBox.bgColor='#D60000'; & pmBox.bgColor=#D60000;



Help! :cry:


Ack!! how do I paste code without having it come up with the category colors from this forum?

Anyway.. I have {variables} for the category color which is fine... the flashing color I manually set to #D60000 (red). It doesnt work in NS 6.2

FireFly-It works great, thanks! :)

b-b00gie-You have to leave the {} in there. It works just fine for me! :)

Tried that too a few minutes ago.


How about this... on 4 different machines running 95,98,XP,NT all with Netscape 6.2 the blink PM wont even work on vbulletin.org when I send myself a PM..


Do any of you even have NS 6.2 installed that are telling me it works?? :(


Dont get me wrong this works like a charm in IE and I LOVE IT!!! but I'm concerned with my netscape viewers... :(

It's probably because of Nutscrape unbelievably crappiness which doesn't support this code. Sorry. :(

OK.. no worries then... :cool:


I was just getting frustrated because I thought others were saying it does work with Netscape 6. But then I tried it on this site and it didnt work here either.. :disappointed:


Thanks for the help though! :tired:

Hi,

can somebody tell me how to change the code that when the table is blinking and you go over this field it will be linked to the privat messages in user cp?

Sorry for my english :)

Birdie501

Add:

onclick="window.location.href='private.php?s=$sess ion[sessionhash]'

to the <td> at the beginning of forumhome_pmloggedin.

I just love simple and highly functional hacks and this one sure qualifies...

thanks!

- jeff

ok, mine never flashes, everytime there is a new PM, it just goes to a different color then the rest but doesn't flash, why?
This is what I have in my Template:

You have a category background image. You can't blink that. I made a modifed version that will enable you to get the bar to blink:

http://www.vbulletin.org/hacks/index...ack&hackid=161

can somone past a working template that works

Very nice Hack, thank´s

Nice hack... I installed it on v2.2.4.

One question tho... is there any code that can get the PM box to blink in the User Control Panel?

Hello guys I have read through the entire thread and I STILL cannot get this hack to work. :(

code removed :)

Even if I change all the colors for the categorybackground color and tablehead background color...it does not blink. The color changes but it doesnt blink.

Any suggestions?

Oh and yes I am using IE and Ive uploaded the index.php file, and sent myself a pm etc.....

Oiy Vey!!! Nevermind folks. Got it too work. I forgot to change both tablehead colors.

Nice hack firefly

Ok, I just upgraded to 2.2.5 and my PM bar now blinks all the time. I did a quick search for this problem, but did not find anything. Have I overlooked it, or any ideas as to what may cause this. It worked fine with 2.0.3.

Thanks!

Reapply changes to index.php.

What must i edit, to put the bar from bottom to top???

Damn this hack is cool and its my first ever. There goes my Cherry :D I noticed someone else was having the same probleem I am, now My pop up box is non existant.

Did you ever figure out why this happens?
Thanks Firefly

This is the first hack I've done to my site and it worked perfectly. Thanks.

Yeap, great hack! Thanks!

Great hack, Firefly! But then, all of yours usually are! ;)

I installed it on vbb 2.2.5 and it works.... strangely :) :

When i got no new pm it's ok not blinking
When i got a new pm okay blinking....
-BUT-
When i send a pm it's blinking "you've got 0 new pms" ???
When i logoff and that i am now a guest it is blinking too "you've got (*nothing*) new PM"

I analysed the code and as i'm not a php guru don't find what was wrong...

plzzzz :)

Great and easy hack! :)

The only thing that I see, is that it's blinks once for me. How can I make it to blink continuously until the person reads their pm?

Thanks!

Iliana

bump

i dig! good work.

Heres my entire forumhome mp logged template. i cant get the hack to work for me...

<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 $inboxname"><normalfont color="{categoryfontcolor}"><b>Private Messages</normalfont></b></a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="{secondaltcolor}" align="center" valign="top"><img src="{imagesfolder}/$lightbulb.gif" alt=""></td>
<td bgcolor="{firstaltcolor}" 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='{tableheadbgcolor}';
$pmblink setInterval("Timer()", 500);
$pmblink x=1;
function Timer() {
set=1;
if(x==0 && set==1) {
pmBox.bgColor='#778899';
x=1;
set=0;
}
if(x==1 && set==1) {
pmBox.bgColor='#2D3851';
x=0;
set=0;
}
}
// End -->
</script>

I'm not certain because all your replacement variables got parsed, but you have three colors there. The first color should be your alternating flashing color. The second one should be your category background color and the third color should be the alternating flashing color again. You may have it right already. It just looks wrong here.

well im sure its wrong cause its not working.... what code should i have??

This is what you should add to the end of template. Substitute the colors you want:

still doesnt work, and i have this code....

<script language="JavaScript">
<!-- Begin
$pmblink pmBox.bgColor='#880000';
$pmblink setInterval("Timer()", 500);
$pmblink x=1;
function Timer() {
set=1;
if(x==0 && set==1) {
pmBox.bgColor='#778899';
x=1;
set=0;
}
if(x==1 && set==1) {
pmBox.bgColor='#880000';
x=0;
set=0;
}
}
// End -->
</script>

i still want to know
how you move the PM bar to the top of the page

Edit your forumhome template, and find the "$pminfo" variable towards the bottom:
</tr>
$forumbits
$pminfo
$loggedinusers
$birthdaybits

And move it just above the </tr> tag two lines above it. That will move it to just above your first Forum in the index, like this:

i thank you very much sir

I tried to install this hack and have my bar flashing but I haven't been able to edit the index.php files success fully.

Every time I try adding the code for blink I get a serever parse error and the site wont load up.

Any ideas what is wrong?

I inserted the code after the light bulp on code by entering a new line and pasting it after the light bulb code.

Never mind. I screwed up the code. I noticed what appeared to be a bracket out of place and rechecked the original code.

Great Hack!!!!!!

Thanks. Oh and I even picked up on the quick tip about moving the position of the PM bar...cool!