Blink the Welcome Bar when receiving a new PM!

Some tiny bits and pieces of this hack was adapted from Chen's vB 2 version of this hack, so kudos to him



What this hack does is it makes the 'Welcome, $username' box in the navbar blink by changing colors whenever a user has a new PM, so that it will catch their attention and they won't miss the PM



You can view the hack in action by viewing the attached screenshot to this post! (Meaning that it will blink like it's supposed to )



Anyways, here are the instructions:



Open up the navbar template and find:

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

Replace with

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

Find:

    <else />

 

        <td class="alt2" nowrap="nowrap" style="padding:0px">

Above, add

	<if condition="$bbuserinfo['pmunread']">
	<script type="text/javascript">
<!-- 
<!-- blink navbar on new pms -->
pmBox.bgColor='$stylevar[thead_bgcolor]';
setInterval("Timer()", 500);
x=1;
function Timer()
{
	set=1;
	if (x==0 && set==1)
	{
		pmBox.bgColor='$stylevar[tcat_bgcolor]';
		x=1;
		set=0;
	}
	if (x==1 && set==1)
	{
		pmBox.bgColor='$stylevar[thead_bgcolor]';
		x=0;
		set=0;
	}
}
-->
</script></if>

All done! You can view the hack in action by viewing the attached screenshot! (Meaning that it will blink like it's supposed to )

[chariotdriver]

I have had this installed, and it works, but at what point is it supposed to stop blinking?
Mine keeps blinking until I get to the part where it is "Send notification of recieving PM" or whatever that last message is. It does not stop blinking even when I have opened the PM. Is this how it supposed to work?

[Blackhat]

I dont think it works with firefox

[DrewzR/T]

Yeah I dont think it does either. It worked for the IE users though. All it does it turn red when i have a new PM. Ive also added in the new codes and still didnt work.

[Shaun M]

Well when I checked in IE it's working

Shame it doesn't in FF though

[hotwheels]

kewl hack, i added it to the blinking red light..............schweet

[ManagerJosh]

Gonna give this a quick bump and let everyone know this is vBulletin 3.5 Compatible

[Colejo]

Originally Posted by ManagerJosh

Gonna give this a quick bump and let everyone know this is vBulletin 3.5 Compatible

Thanks I just added it and it works.

[rb290]

this is not for vB 3.5.0 ?

EDIT: just saw the post saying its allowed with 3.5.0

thanks.

[AtoZ]

Excellent! Just upgraded to 3.5 and it works!!

If it doesn't blink, check your stylevars - If tcat and thead are the same color it won't blink. I changed the javascript code so it uses alt1 and alt2 instead.

[Nitewalker]

does it work on 3.0.10 ? i dun think so