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Blinking notifier in welcome bar when receiving a new pm
Developer Last Online: Nov 2007
Don't you just hate it sending a pm to someone and he/she never reads it untill some weeks later? Using the build in pop-up bar from vB that problem is easily solved, but has to be turned on by the user since it is not a default setting.
VB.org offered me two sollutions, but were both (sound on pm, or that ugly blinking red message that is used by this forum) a bit over the top. I then found JohnBee's cleaner version which did the trick in Internet Explorer, but didnt function when using Firefox. Plus there was a lot of code that needed to be added, so even though I had zero experience in Javascript, i started crafting one myself. Now this version works both in Internet Explorer as in Firefox, they look exactly the same (as in speeds) plus only 17 lines of code are added to one single template style. You can change the blink color to any color you like and also change the speed of the blinking. (setInterval("doBlink()",500, where 500 is the speed in milliseconds) installation In AdminCP, in your navbar template, find Code:
ht = document.getElementsByTagName("html"); ht[0].style.filter = "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.BasicImage(grayscale=1)"; if (confirm('$vbphrase[sure_you_want_to_log_out]')) { return true; } else { ht[0].style.filter = ""; return false; } } //--> Code:
<!-- [Fusion's `ing PM mod :: http://ut2004.titaninternet.co.uk] --> function doBlink() { var blink = document.all.tags("blink") for (var i=0; i<blink.length; i++) blink[i].style.visibility = blink[i].style.visibility == "" ? "hidden" : "" } //fix by Piglet function startBlink() { window.preblinkonload(); setInterval("doBlink()",500) } if (document.all && ! window.preblinkonload){ window.preblinkonload = window.onload; window.onload = startBlink; } //--> Code:
<if condition="$show['pmstats']"><br /><phrase 1="$vbphrase[unread_x_nav_compiled]" 2="$vbphrase[total_x_nav_compiled]" 3="$session[sessionurl]">$vbphrase[private_messages_nav]</phrase></if> Code:
<if condition="$show['pmstats']"><br /> <if condition="$bbuserinfo['pmunread']"> <phrase 1="<blink><font color=#ff0000>$vbphrase[unread_x_nav_compiled]</font></blink>" 2="$vbphrase[total_x_nav_compiled]" 3="$session[sessionurl]">$vbphrase[private_messages_nav]</phrase> <br /> <else /> <phrase 1="$vbphrase[unread_x_nav_compiled]" 2="$vbphrase[total_x_nav_compiled]" 3="$session[sessionurl]">$vbphrase[private_messages_nav]</phrase><br /></if></if> ---------------------------optional--------------------------- Alternatively, if you just want blinking text (so text with default font color blinking on and off) simply skip the last step and do this one in stead. In the same template, find Code:
<if condition="$show['pmstats']"><br /><phrase 1="$vbphrase[unread_x_nav_compiled]" 2="$vbphrase[total_x_nav_compiled]" 3="$session[sessionurl]">$vbphrase[private_messages_nav]</phrase></if> Code:
<if condition="$show['pmstats']"><br /> <if condition="$bbuserinfo['pmunread']"> <phrase 1="<blink>$vbphrase[unread_x_nav_compiled]</blink>" 2="$vbphrase[total_x_nav_compiled]" 3="$session[sessionurl]">$vbphrase[private_messages_nav]</phrase> <br /> <else /> <phrase 1="$vbphrase[unread_x_nav_compiled]" 2="$vbphrase[total_x_nav_compiled]" 3="$session[sessionurl]">$vbphrase[private_messages_nav]</phrase><br /></if></if> Dont forget to press install if you like this little mod. Update (26-5-2005): This mod had a conflict in IE with an other mod, namely a 2nd breadcrumb we've added at the bottom for easy scrolling, which caused us to have an overflow error in Internet Explorer. So basicly, this mod should have worked for other forums, it just gave us specificly a slight hickup cause of the nature of our board. Still, the code has been updated so that it works now for both us and other forums that may have messed with the onload command. Show Your Support
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is there somethin similar to this for vb 3.5 ?
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It works just fine for 3.5.0.
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Thank you great idea
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Very handy. Thanks.
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works great 3.5.4
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hmm mine worked fine on 3.5.0 but now that i upgraded.. i cannoot get it to work..
it will not blink and the error on the page keep saying this line:40 char:1 error: object doesn't support this property or method code:0 my url link here. any ideas what that could be and how i can get this mod to work now? that i have upgraded? |
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Has anyone done this as a plugin or plugin product yet for VB 3.5.x ?
Doug |
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Not that I know of, but it works as is.
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You can only add new templates and overwrite templates with a product. These are only template modifications, so there's no need for a product. You need to do these template modifications yourself |
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So what your saying is that there is no way to create a plugin to accomplish this without me having to manually edit the code??? I was trying to get a plugin or plugin product so that editing the code wasnt neccessary.
*** #1 Reason.... And I didnt have to worry about VB upgrades wiping out my changes. Doug Quote:
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