Blink the Welcome Bar when receiving a new PM!

Some tiny bits and pieces of this hack was adapted from Chen's vB 2 version of this hack, so kudos to him



What this hack does is it makes the 'Welcome, $username' box in the navbar blink by changing colors whenever a user has a new PM, so that it will catch their attention and they won't miss the PM



You can view the hack in action by viewing the attached screenshot to this post! (Meaning that it will blink like it's supposed to )



Anyways, here are the instructions:



Open up the navbar template and find:

        <td class="alt2" valign="top" nowrap="nowrap">

Replace with

        <td valign="top" nowrap="nowrap" <if condition="$bbuserinfo['pmunread']">id="pmBox"<else />class="alt2"</if>>

Find:

    <else />

 

        <td class="alt2" nowrap="nowrap" style="padding:0px">

Above, add

	<if condition="$bbuserinfo['pmunread']">
	<script type="text/javascript">
<!-- 
<!-- blink navbar on new pms -->
pmBox.bgColor='$stylevar[thead_bgcolor]';
setInterval("Timer()", 500);
x=1;
function Timer()
{
	set=1;
	if (x==0 && set==1)
	{
		pmBox.bgColor='$stylevar[tcat_bgcolor]';
		x=1;
		set=0;
	}
	if (x==1 && set==1)
	{
		pmBox.bgColor='$stylevar[thead_bgcolor]';
		x=0;
		set=0;
	}
}
-->
</script></if>

All done! You can view the hack in action by viewing the attached screenshot! (Meaning that it will blink like it's supposed to )

[rms10]

I went ahead and installed the mod. Works like a charm Thanks

[Gary W]

Sorry about that guys, problem fixed

[btekcan]

Yesss,great now works...

Thanks

[sabret00the]

very nice

[Natch]

Cos the original one had some bugs, I went away and did this in a slightly different way GaryW - I used the same script that I had for my onmouseover thread/forum bgcolor changer from this thread - and I extended the effect to make the pmBox and the breadcrumb box alternate colours when a new pm is there ...

Major props for the idea - I love the effect and have sent myself numerous PM's just to test and re-test it

[high]* Natch clicks install cos u gave me the idea [/high]

[rms10]

Gary is it possible for you to also add some effect to this when the PM's box gets full?

Thanks

[Natch]

It could flash faster in that case witha simple conditional around the timer statement ...

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by Natch

Cos the original one had some bugs, I went away and did this in a slightly different way GaryW - I used the same script that I had for my onmouseover thread/forum bgcolor changer from http://www.vbulletintemplates.com/mo...97]this thread - and I extended the effect to make the pmBox and the breadcrumb box alternate colours when a new pm is there ...

Major props for the idea - I love the effect and have sent myself numerous PM's just to test and re-test it

[high]* Natch clicks install cos u gave me the idea [/high]

Can we see yours?

[rebelsrock06]

i cant get mine to work ? ?

i replaced

<td class="alt2" valign="top" nowrap="nowrap">

with

<td valign="top" nowrap="nowrap" <if condition="$bbuserinfo['pmunread']">id="pmBox"<else />class="alt2"</if>>

but the last instruction doesnt make much sense.

i found

<else />



<td class="alt2" nowrap="nowrap" style="padding:0px">

and then i put the other tags Where ? ? ? ??

[rebelsrock06]

heheheh never mins, i had 2 colors thae same so i could see the blinking :lol: