Background Color New PM Notification

I couldn't find a mod for changing the background of the welcome box when the member has a new PM, so I decided to write one. This is my first mod so be nice

I have tested it with vB 3.6.0 and it works flawlessly.

In the navbar template
Find:

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

Replace with:

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

Next, go to Style Manager > Main CSS and scroll to the very bottom. Under Additional CSS Definitions add the following to the bottom box.

.pmbg { background-color: #33CCFF; color: #000000;}

Hit save and you are done.

Don't forget to click INSTALL

[jdk10]

He gave the code to change the background color. He didn't give any code to show if there is a new message or not. Its a stupid little hack to change the background color. If someone told me the hex for the color white text and I go create a hack changing text white, it doesn't mean they told me how to write the mod.

[jdk10]

Originally Posted by o0Hubba0o

Well, not bad for your first, and I'll try to be nice. However didn't you get this from ericgtr's hack? Which I guess is cool too, that's how I'm learning, from other peoples work, but you should give credit to where you got the idea.

[therocks]

great mod! thanks!

[o0Hubba0o]

Originally Posted by jdk10

He gave the code to change the background color. He didn't give any code to show if there is a new message or not. Its a stupid little hack to change the background color. If someone told me the hex for the color white text and I go create a hack changing text white, it doesn't mean they told me how to write the mod.

hex color and changing the font color isn't quite the same thing, sorry, nice try. the table class: pmbg and adding it to the css was told to you by eric in his post. Basically you just took what he told you to do and made it your's without giving credit.

If this is what people want for their pm's great, you provided a seperate thread with this idea, but you didn't write it yourself, just released it after getting the info from eric.

[Kirk Y]

Who cares? It's all open-source anyway; technically you're stealing from the person who created PHP - or HTML, in this case.

[Paul M]

Who cares ? - the person who wrote it might care - you can't just go around copying other peoples code and releasing it as your own. I suggest you contact eric and ask.

[Kirk Y]

I believe it was already discussed in Eric's original thread - he didn't sound too happy, but he wasn't freaking out.

[TheBlackPoet]

I was hating that my members had to look up and see they had a msg TEN MINUTES AGO..... this is a great idea and my mems preciate it~

[trainer]

Originally Posted by Ben Wilkins

Awsome, is there a way i can make it flash back to white then back to blue and so on?

couldn't you use this code to set the background as a flashing .gif image? that would allow you to have it flashing

[MRGTB]

Originally Posted by acidburn0520

Who cares? It's all open-source anyway; technically you're stealing from the person who created PHP - or HTML, in this case.

agree