Private Messages Enhancements - TW7S - New Way To Display Notifications (jQuery,CSS,jGrowl)

Description:
This mod changes the way notifications are displayed. It disables the default dropdown menu listed in the toplinks in the header and uses a free open script called jGrowl to display them on the bottom left of the screen no matter where you are on a page. Helps with people "not noticing" the notifications. Enjoy. TheWindows7Site

Instructions:

1) Upload files in attachment to forum root

2) Open template headinclude

Paste the following code at the bottom

<!-- TW7S - New Way To Display Notifications (jQuery,CSS,jGrowl) --> 
    <script type="text/javascript" src="jscripts/tw7s_notifications/jquery-1.4.2.js"></script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" src="jscripts/tw7s_notifications/jquery.jgrowl.js"></script> 
    <link href="jscripts/tw7s_notifications/jquery.jgrowl.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
<!-- TW7S - New Way To Display Notifications (jQuery,CSS,jGrowl) -->

3) Open template header

Find the following:

				<vb:if condition="$notifications_total">
				<li class="popupmenu notifications" id="notifications">
					<a class="popupctrl" href="usercp.php{vb:raw session.sessionurl_q}">{vb:rawphrase your_notifications}: <span class="notifications-number"><strong>{vb:raw notifications_total}</strong></span></a>
					<ul class="popupbody popuphover">
						{vb:raw notifications_menubits}
					</ul>
				</li>
				<vb:else />
				<li class="popupmenu nonotifications" id="nonotifications">
					<a class="popupctrl" href="usercp.php{vb:raw session.sessionurl_q}">{vb:rawphrase your_notifications}</a>
					<ul class="popupbody popuphover">
						<li>{vb:rawphrase no_new_messages}</li>
						<li><a href="private.php{vb:raw session.sessionurl_q}">{vb:rawphrase inbox}</a></li>
					</ul>
				</li>
				</vb:if>

Replace with:

<!-- TW7S - New Way To Display Notifications (jQuery,CSS,jGrowl) --> 
<vb:if condition="$notifications_total">
<script type="text/javascript">

$.jGrowl('{vb:raw notifications_menubits} <br />You must view your notification(s) before this box will disappear.' , { sticky: true, header : 'New Notification(s)' } );

</script>
</vb:if>

<li><a href="private.php{vb:raw session.sessionurl_q}">{vb:rawphrase inbox}</a></li>
<!-- TW7S - New Way To Display Notifications (jQuery,CSS,jGrowl) -->

Done!

Have fun customizing this to fit your needs.

Arabic Translation by Dr.osamA
Spanish Translation by Destron

[Konsolenheld]

/** Normal Style Positions **/
div.jGrowl {
	position:			absolute;

This part?

[LifesGreatestGift]

Why change position of box? Its translucent and meant to be "in the way" so the member will have no choice but read the notification.

[basilrath]

Choice ?

Lets face it we al dont like red pants ?

[Mellow]

How easy is it to change the color of the box? I'd like it to be a light yellow w/black text just to stand out more.

Thanks!

[basilrath]

its in the css file

[Mellow]

Originally Posted by basilrath

its in the css file

Duh.. thanks! Sometimes obvious questions deserve obvious answers.

[Yaung Sein]

Originally Posted by literatestylish

Words GREAT on Firefox and Chrome, but it completely disables the forum on IE.

Edit: fixed it. As per step 3, don't remove the entire section it tells you to remove. Simply remove the part that pertains to the notification dropdown.

I have still error in IE. Can you show me how do you fix it?

[whitedd]

...Croatian translation...

<!-- TW7S - New Way To Display Notifications (jQuery,CSS,jGrowl) --> 
<vb:if condition="$notifications_total">
<script type="text/javascript">

$.jGrowl('{vb:raw notifications_menubits} <br />Morate pregledati poruku(e) kako bi ova obavijest nestala.' , { sticky: true, header : 'Nova poruka(e)' } );

</script>
</vb:if>

<li><a href="private.php{vb:raw session.sessionurl_q}">{vb:rawphrase inbox}</a></li>
<!-- TW7S - New Way To Display Notifications (jQuery,CSS,jGrowl) -->

[Yaung Sein]

Originally Posted by Yaung Sein

I have still error in IE. Can you show me how do you fix it?

Any help to fix it? Anyone?

[basilrath]

When you say error what exactly do you mean ?

Expand so we have something to work with