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 )

[mholtum]

Originally Posted by 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!




EDIT: Also this works with 3.0.3.

Yes, I followed these instructions

[imported_Zen]

Originally Posted by mholtum

Yes, I followed these instructions

small errors in the code above.. works great BTW

extra spaces have crept in at $styleva
:

PHP Code:

document.getElementById('pmBox').bgColor='$styleva    r[thead_bgcolor]'; 


[mholtum]

Fixed that, thanks

[djjeffa]

installed and work great thanks guys

[Randyjc]

        <if condition="$bbuserinfo['userid']">

                <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>

so weird i have it like this but it won't work for 3.0.3

[TwinsForMe]

Works for me. Thanks.

vb 3.0.3 in Netscape

[secret1980]

it's really a nice hack..Thx! for it

just now I noticed that after installing this hack...I am getting log in forum again in the middle even though after logging on..I have captured a screen shot here it is :



waiting for ur help...

Thanking u,
Pavan Kumar

[Rocket_Cowboy]

Nevermind ... if I'd read the entire thread, I'd see what I was missing ...

LOL

[Mechanical Mind]

Originally Posted by Gary W

Okay then you can just change the colour variables to a specified colour by replacing them with colour codes

Can anybody point out the color variables? I am not sure where to install the color codes in that section of code?

[imported_Gottcha]

Got it working and looks great...will be a big help. Anyway to have it work with vbportal installed? My start page is vbportal and it doesnt notify through there. Any mod to get it working?