Blink PM bar on new PM!

This is a very simple hack, yet I kinda like it.
Don't you just hate it when you write a long PM to someone, send it, and he doesn't even notice it?!

NO MORE!

Install this very easy hack and no one will be able to ignore the PM again.

This is almost just a template hack, but since it does involve editing a file and adding 4 lines of PHP code, it qualifies as a hack.
Sue me.

Anyway, what does this hack do?
Whenever you come to the forum main page, and you have any unread messages (even if they aren't new), the category strip that says "Private Messages" will blink.
Simple, but effective.

To see a demo of this, just send yourself a PM and see what happens. I'm sure you'll like it.

Installing this will take you 2 minutes if not less, it's very very simple.
I also don't expect too many support requests.

Anyway, have fun!

[350Chevy]

Anyway to add a random .wav file to play along with this?

Great hack btw!

[alkatraz]

works great! thx!

[Dynamic One]

Thanks for this hack FireFly

[XFLBret]

OK, I got it working, but I thought of a good improvement to it...

Just so my forums look cleaner, this is what I'd like...

Is it possible to make the text flash also? what i'd like is to make the bar flash to that the background and the text alternate colors. example: if it is normally white text on black background, i'd like to see it so that it flashes back and forth from white text on black background to black text on white background.

i would do it, but know absolutely nothing about coding. could someone else make this happen?

[Sebastian]

Originally posted by XFLBret
OK, I got it working, but I thought of a good improvement to it...

Just so my forums look cleaner, this is what I'd like...

Is it possible to make the text flash also? what i'd like is to make the bar flash to that the background and the text alternate colors. example: if it is normally white text on black background, i'd like to see it so that it flashes back and forth from white text on black background to black text on white background.

i would do it, but know absolutely nothing about coding. could someone else make this happen?

<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='{categorybackcolor }';
		x=1;
		set=0;
	}
	if(x==1 && set==1) {
		pmBox.bgColor='{tableheadbgcolor }';
		x=0;
		set=0;
	}
}
// End -->
</script>

See {tableheadbgcolor } and {categorybackcolor } change it to the colors you want, you can use #000000 for black #FFFFFFF for white, etc..

[XFLBret]

well, yeah, i got that part. but that flashes just the background. i was inquiring on how I could get the text to flash also in sync with the background flashing. I want where it says "private message" to flash also, but different colors then what the background is flashing

did i make sense this time? i don't know if i'm expressing myself well here...

[BigCheeze]

Works Great! Thanks!!

[XFLBret]

hello? anyone know the answer to my questions two posts above? i would really like to make this happen. thanks.

[flup]

Great hack! thx

[Lionel]

I have been using that hack for the longest time and it works fine. But is it possible to have just the text blink instead of the entire <td>?