Private Messages Enhancements - Private message Animation

This cool little mod will simply enhance and add some fun to your Private Message alert and adds a little flash animation to the bottom right corner of your board. The flash mail box can then be clicked and will redirect to your private message box. Animation is based on forum home page but can easily be added to display on any page required or indeed every page and will dissapear when mailbox is read.

Added new MSN Style Pop up alert box


There are three animations you can use. including msn style pop up alert box

If anyone has a different path and needs this altering in the swf and fla please post and i will arrange this asap - thanks



Edit template - FORUMHOME

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PHP Code:

{vb:raw footer} 


After add

PHP Code:

<!-- mail -->
<vb:if condition="$bbuserinfo[pmunread]">
<a style="display:scroll;position:fixed;bottom:-40px;right:-20px;" title="Click Here - new message!">
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" 
   data="/path-to-your/you-got-mail.swf" 
    width="150" height="250">
     <param name="movie" value="/path-to-your/you-got-mail.swf" />
   <param name="quality" value="high"/>
  <param name="wmode" value="transparent"/>
 </object>
</vb:if>
<!-- end of mail --> 


Save template

Upload - the relevant swf to your forum root

Note: the flash file target url is based on the relative path of

/forum/private.php although this can be changed via the fla

Demo can be seen via the site ............ HERE

Tested on ie,ff and Safari 4


added alternative swf animated mail character - choose either for your notification

+++ Updated and added "you-got-mail.swf" to suit any board using "forums" in path +++

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MSN Style Pop up Alert Added to Alert (including sound)

Same idea code below in the same place as above (use this for msn style pop up alert)

PHP Code:

<!-- mail --> 
<vb:if condition="$bbuserinfo[pmunread]"> 
<a style="display:scroll;position:fixed;bottom:1px;left:3px;" title="Click Here - new message!"> 
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash"  
   data="/path-to-your/msn-popup.swf"  
    width="148" height="119"> 
     <param name="movie" value="/path-to-your/msn-popup.swf" /> 
   <param name="quality" value="high"/> 
  <param name="wmode" value="transparent"/> 
 </object> 
</vb:if> 
<!-- end of mail --> 


The MSN Alert can be seen on the youtube clip here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0tz8TWH4MM
(sound not on video clip)

or login on
username: msn
password: pass123
use the demo-mods stlye at the bottom of site to view test message

path to private.php is set at: /forum/private.php
(The fla is attatched also if the path needs changing on msn-popup.swf)



Mark Installed

[scrap19]

this is what I see in the file...do I need to change any of this, if so to what?

if (PlaySound eq 0)
{
tellTarget("/sound")
{
gotoAndStop("nosound");
tellTarget("")
{
} // End of TellTarget
} // End of TellTarget
} // end if

[basilrath]

If you have a decompiler then you can do it via removing the "voice over" in cs3.

If not then i have edited the flv and attatched the swf with target to private.php being

www.yourboard.com/private.php

hope this helps

[scrap19]

Thank you sir!!!

[barcena]

Can I use another image other than the mailbox?
Also, I don't want any sounds, people maybe at work.

Can you help me with the code and point me where to change the image path?.

Thanks.

[basilrath]

you can use an image but would not get the "animation" as in the moving onto the screen etc but yes it can be done - the alternative is to use another flash animation without voice or sound etc.

I am actually working on some newer mailbox animations but have been busy so just a time thing.

[ladycroft]

hello
I loaded the swf file without sound here ... the picture I have, but if I then click on the picture I get error-page ne ... the right path ... not because the image file, I have given the correct path ... it may be that the flash-file-path is not the same as mine? My path starts with / vb /....

can someone help?

Greetins ladycroft

[abbasbsp]

hello @basilrath

Originally Posted by basilrath

you can edit the swf

how to edit swf file ??, please explain

[basilrath]

Ladycroft

hello
I loaded the swf file without sound here ... the picture I have, but if I then click on the picture I get error-page ne ... the right path ... not because the image file, I have given the correct path ... it may be that the flash-file-path is not the same as mine? My path starts with / vb /....

can someone help?

Greetins ladycroft

ichal spy:

how to edit swf file ??, please explain

What is your following:

Board path and path to private.php and i will edit for you both

[ladycroft]

No, I. Swf file have not worked. I do not know how that goes.
When I click on the mailbox, is this:
The requested URL /private.php was not found on this server.

My path to private.php is: /vb/private.php

[basilrath]

My path to private.php is: /vb/private.php

Ok upload and overwrite the swf .............. i have edited the swf to suit your board