PM Bar Blink & PM Quick Reply

[TheEDIGuy]

Anyone, by any chance, working on either of these 2 template mods? My members are driving me nuts with the requests for 2 of their favorite features.

[DAB10788]

yup, pm bar blink was very nice

[idwf]

I'll wait for this too

[Cassidy]

I loved the blinking PM bar. It was hypnotizing....

[idwf]

Originally Posted by Caszi

I loved the blinking PM bar. It was hypnotizing....

any chance of it begin done on VB3?

[Brad]

I was going to wait until RC to release both, I'll release them then if they havent been done by someone else in the mean time.

[SmartGnome]

Here is a little piece of code to give a try. On my testboard it works

You can put this code anywhere on your forumhome template in a place it fits your request. I did put it in the welcome panel from Tungsten, there I created an extra column and entered the code there.

For testing you can place it on the HEADER template at following spot so it doesn't mess up your forum homepage.
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In the HEADER template look for:

<table border="0" width="$stylevar[outertablewidth]" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center">

Directly under this line insert:

 
<tr><td align="right">
<if condition="$bbuserinfo[pmunread] != 0">
<div id=glow_text>
<h2 align=center><font face=Arial color=#00ff00 style=letter-spacing:3pt>New Private Message</font></h1>
</div>
<script language=javascript>
//----   Choice of variables   ----
glow_color="red"
glow_min=1
glow_max=6
glow_speed=40
//---------The description---------
/*
glow_color - color of the glow
glow_min - minimal size
glow_max - maximal size
glow_speed - the glow speed
*/
//----------------------------------
function f_glow(){
 glow_size+=glow_const
 if (glow_size>glow_max || glow_size<glow_min) glow_const*=(-1)
 document.all.glow_text.style.filter = "glow(color="+glow_color+", strength="+glow_size+")"
}
if(document.all){glow_const=1; glow_size=glow_min; document.all.glow_text.style.width="100%"; setInterval("f_glow()",glow_speed)}
</script>
</if>
</td></tr></span>

Save the HEADER template.

If there are no pm's you will see nothing and as soon there is a pm there is a blinking 'glowing'text there.

You can edit the settings in the script to adjust all for your own taste
Play a little with it and perhaps another comes with new ideas/

Cheers
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[imported_BarryA]

Couple of things...

1. Private is spelled wrong in Private Message.
2. Your missing the </if> at the end

Other than that it seems to work well... Thanks alot...

[SmartGnome]

Originally Posted by BarryA

Couple of things...

1. Private is spelled wrong in Private Message.
2. Your missing the </if> at the end

Other than that it seems to work well... Thanks alot...

Have edited the code. Well the spelling is from a cheesehead and </if> from copy & paste

Glad you like it

[imported_BarryA]

The blinking text didnt work for all my users so I re-wrote it using an animated .gif. This version will also let you click the gif and take you to your PM box. Its a little more simple as well.

<!-- PM Blink -->
<if condition="$bbuserinfo[pmunread] != 0">
<tr><td class="page" align="center">
<a href="private.php?$session[sessionurl]"><img src="$stylevar[imagesfolder]/newpmblink.gif" border="0" /></a>
</td></tr></if>
<!-- End PM Blink -->

I put it in the navbar template right before the last </table>

I attached a .gif for you to use, but you can make your own if you like. Put the .gif file in your images directory.