vB Blinking Evelope on PM

This hack should work for every Release Candidate version.

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DEMO BOARD
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Demo board is located at: http://www.forumfreedom.net/
Feel free to visit.

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DESCRIPTION
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This hack is very simple: it adds a blinking envelope to your forum if you have a new private message, making it easier to know if you have a new private message. This actually came from a request from the 3.5 modification request forum.

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INSTALLATION
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Difficulty: Easy
Time: Less than a minute

PLEASE CLICK INSTALL!!!

UPDATE: NO LONGER REQUIRES FILE EDIT.

[Delphiprogrammi]

Originally Posted by Boofo

Any pics?

that envelope jumps up and down nice nice

[lairnoc]

UPDATE: NO LONGER REQUIRES FILE EDIT.

sorry but if i dl the file still needs a file edit...

[Andreas]

Here is the Template edit

In template navbar
FIND

<phrase 1="$pmbox[lastvisitdate]" 2="$pmbox[lastvisittime]">$vbphrase[last_visited_x_at_y]</phrase>
<if condition="$show['pmstats']"><br /><phrase 1="$vbphrase[unread_x_nav_compiled]" 2="$vbphrase[total_x_nav_compiled]" 3="$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[private_messages_nav]</phrase></if>
</div>

REPLACE that WITH:

<phrase 1="$pmbox[lastvisitdate]" 2="$pmbox[lastvisittime]">$vbphrase[last_visited_x_at_y]</phrase>
<if condition="$show['pmstats']"><br /><if condition="$bbuserinfo['pmunread']">img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/benvelope.gif" width="18" height="16" alt="" /></if><phrase 1="$vbphrase[unread_x_nav_compiled]" 2="$vbphrase[total_x_nav_compiled]" 3="$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[private_messages_nav]</phrase></if>
</div>

Upload benvelope.gif to images/misc

[deathemperor]

you missed a < before img tag, below is the correct version

<phrase 1="$pmbox[lastvisitdate]" 2="$pmbox[lastvisittime]">$vbphrase[last_visited_x_at_y]</phrase>
<if condition="$show['pmstats']"><br /><if condition="$bbuserinfo['pmunread']"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/benvelope.gif" width="18" height="16" alt="" /></if><phrase 1="$vbphrase[unread_x_nav_compiled]" 2="$vbphrase[total_x_nav_compiled]" 3="$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[private_messages_nav]</phrase></if>
</div>

[o0Hubba0o]

Would it be possible to get ONE person to post everything we need to do for this? All the posts saying you can or cant or should do it this way and they're all different from what's in the zip.

[Delphiprogrammi]

Originally Posted by o0Hubba0o

Would it be possible to get ONE person to post everything we need to do for this? All the posts saying you can or cant or should do it this way and they're all different from what's in the zip.

open template navbar find $pmbox variable

replace with

<phrase 1="$pmbox[lastvisitdate]" 2="$pmbox[lastvisittime]">$vbphrase[last_visited_x_at_y]</phrase>
<if condition="$show['pmstats']"><br /><if condition="$bbuserinfo['pmunread']"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/benvelope.gif" width="18" height="16" alt="" /></if><phrase 1="$vbphrase[unread_x_nav_compiled]" 2="$vbphrase[total_x_nav_compiled]" 3="$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[private_messages_nav]</phrase></if>
</div>

upload the benvelope.gif image to /forum/images/misc

done

[Vizionz]

i liked the old blinking text on pm firget the image just make the text blink and i am straight

[dsotmoon]

installed, thanks

[thedvs]

anyone got a blinking transparent gif for dark boards?

[TygerTyger]

Very handy mod indeed. I like Few suggestions though...

Remove your Thumbs.db file from the zip

Locate the envelope image in the images directory by default. Or even images/misc. That's what it's there for

Add a single whitespace after $displetter in the code so it is nicely spaced between the image and the PM message info, and knock IMG and SRC down into lower case (it's good practice!)

What happened to the envelope icon? It looks corrupted mate, there's artifacts all over bumping the filesize way up. You can use mine if you like, I really posted it for thedvs but anyone who wants it can use it. There's a square and slightly rounded version, both about an 8th the filesize of the original.

Thanks for the mod again, it's the samll touches that can make the difference!