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 )

[Bryan Ex]

Worked great and especially once I changed the background classes to alt1 & 2 except that I use the vB nav bar in my photopost gallery and it created all kinds of script errors. I had to uninstall but will be keeping this bookmarked for a stand alone board I'm working on next.

[Littlebit]

Originally Posted by Bryan Ex

Worked great and especially once I changed the background classes to alt1 & 2 except that I use the vB nav bar in my photopost gallery and it created all kinds of script errors. I had to uninstall but will be keeping this bookmarked for a stand alone board I'm working on next.

You can also keep an eye out at http://vbadvanced.com . They're coming out with a gallery that is seamless with vB and for less money.

[Eagle Creek]

//Installed

It's not working well with all skins

[YLP1]

Hi all,

I am getting this broken code on my PM box...how do I fix it?

I am also getting an error on the page

Line 434
Char 1
Error: 'pmBox' is undefined
Code" 0

[Natch]

It's a broken conditional statement - probably you have an extra > inside your conditional?

Re-check your postbit / postbit_legacy modification.

[hdaniel1]

Here is what I did so this mod works on every browser.

First, as usual open up the navbar template and find this.

PHP Code:

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


You replace it with this.

PHP Code:

                <td valign="top" nowrap="nowrap" <if condition="$bbuserinfo['pmunread']">id="pmBox"<else /> class="alt2"</if>>
<if condition="$bbuserinfo['pmunread']">
    <script type="text/javascript">
<!-- 
<!-- blink navbar on new pms -->
document.getElementById('pmBox').bgColor='$stylevar[thead_bgcolor]';
setInterval("Timer()", 500);
x=1;
function Timer()
{
    set=1;
    if (x==0 && set==1)
    {
        document.getElementById('pmBox').bgColor='$stylevar[tcat_bgcolor]';
        x=1;
        set=0;
    }
    if (x==1 && set==1)
    {
        document.getElementById('pmBox').bgColor='$stylevar[thead_bgcolor]';
        x=0;
        set=0;
    }
}
-->
</script></if> 


That is all!


I replaced pmBox.bgColor with document.getElementById('pmBox').bgColor.

EDIT: Also this works with 3.0.3.

[SaN-DeeP]

Originally Posted by hdaniel1

Here is what I did so this mod works on every browser.


That is all!


I replaced pmBox.bgColor with document.getElementById('pmBox').bgColor.

EDIT: Also this works with 3.0.3.

thnx dude.
works perfect on vb 3.0.3

Regards

[DarknessDivine]

Works like a dream

[mholtum]

Works great in IE but not in Mozilla

[hdaniel1]

Originally Posted by mholtum

Works great in IE but not in Mozilla

Did you follow my updated instructions on how to make it work on all browsers?