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New PM's in Header (blinking text or image) · **Released**: 04-13-2002

Since I don't really like the the PM window notification alert built in VB, I wanted to have a little link in the header that blinks and tell me (no matter what page i view at the moment) that I have a new PM from one of the users.

The link is invisible by default. When you get a message, it starts to [high]blink[/high].

The good part about this hack is that you don't have to edit the database and also that you can customise it through the VB template system. The Java script that makes the link to blink doesn't insert any [high]onLoad();[/high] in <body>, so it will work independently from any other Java scripts you inserted in your pages.
This hack will work in both, IE and Netscrape.

ESTIMATED INSTALL TIME: 3 minutes
TESTED IN VERSION: 2.2.5

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[high]HACK UPDATES[/high]
Version 1.1 Released
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Added the choice between 'blinking text' or 'blinking image'

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MaxScript · #52 10-26-2003, 02:37 AM

any luck on vb3 b7 ?

digital vettes · #53 10-26-2003, 05:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Unknown553

Works fine for me, blinks with new messages (read and unread) and server is seeing no increase whatsoever. Using IE 6.

Very nice hack. Worked well! Thank you.

www.digitalcorvettes.com

sgtmaj · #54 02-04-2004, 05:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TECK

ya. it does, until you read them all.

for some reason this isn't working for me. Could it possibly be due to the fact that I use a backgound image, instead of background color for my table headers???

Emmy2 · #55 04-19-2004, 03:14 PM

Very nice hack, thank you!

DenzoForums · #56 04-30-2004, 12:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Emmy2

Very nice hack, thank you!

anybody know where i can get this or something like it for vb 3.0.1?

Thomas P · #57 07-29-2004, 12:48 PM

@Teck: Nice, but do you have a current js script for the blink part?

visibility: show/hide for firefox i.e.?

Does work perfect in IE but not in Gecko

Thanks,
-Tom

/edit: Got one

Update JS code to this (delete old, add the following):

Code:

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
// interval length (in seconds)
var intervalLength = .7;
function emulateBlink() {
 objs = document.getElementsByTagName("span");
 for(x = 0; x < objs.length; x++) {
  if(objs[x].className == "blink") {
   if(objs[x].style.visibility == "hidden") {
	objs[x].style.visibility = "visible";
   } 
   
   else {
	objs[x].style.visibility = "hidden";
   }
  }
 }
 window.setTimeout("emulateBlink();",(intervalLength * 1000));
}
if(document.getElementsByTagName) {
 emulateBlink();
}
-->
</script>

and then change the new pm link in the template header_pm to look like this:

Code:

<span class="blink">something</span>

Great!

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