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[Rahvin 0]

Any chance of making it more noticeable when you have a new PM?

[SURFSIDE 0]

When I get a new PM on this forum it comes as a pop up first........very fast and noticeable for me....

[Scleameth 19]

Rahvin, this might sound daft, but in "your control panel" did you select "yes" for notification of new PMs in the Board settings ?

[Kelyndra 0]

I have mine set to pop up as well... however, if you're using a pop-up blocker or a browser that does it automatically, you would have to set it to allow pop-ups for this site.

 

Another option is a script that you can get from the InvisionFree site that makes the text blink in another colour (of your choice) when you have a new message.

[Rahvin 0]

I was think more alone the lines of something like this slipped into the footer section of the board wrappers.

 

<script>

FlashColor = "white"

Speed = 0.5; // Changes Color Every 0.3 Seconds

 

Do = 0

Links = document.getElementsByTagName('a')

for(I=0;I<Links.length;I++){

if(Links.innerHTML.match(/Inbox \((\d+)\)/I)){

if(RegExp.$1 > 0){

Links.setAttribute('Flash', 'Yes')

Do++

}

}

}

 

function FlashOn(){

Links = document.getElementsByTagName('a')

for(I=0;I<Links.length;I++){

if(Links.getAttribute('Flash')){

Links.style.color = FlashColor

}

}

setTimeout("FlashOff()", Speed*1000)

}

 

function FlashOff(){

Links = document.getElementsByTagName('a')

for(I=0;I<Links.length;I++){

if(Links.getAttribute('Flash')){

Links.style.color = ''

}

}

setTimeout("FlashOn()", Speed*1000)

}

 

if(Do > 0){

FlashOff()

}

</script>

 

 

But I do have an automatic pop-up blocker, so I guess I can mess with the settings.

[Kelyndra 0]

Yeah, that's similar to what I was talking about. In another forum that I admin, we use this one (goes in the header box):

 

<script>//New PM Flasher - By Markup

userLinks=document.getElementById('userlinks');

if(userLinks.innerHTML.match("Inbox"))

{

newMsg=false;

a=userLinks.getElementsByTagName("A");

for(I=0;I<a.length;I++)if(a.innerHTML.match(/Inbox\s\([0-9]+\)/)&&a.innerHTML.match(/[0-9]+/)>0)newMsg=

I;

if(newMsg)

{

inbox=a[newMsg];

inbox.style.fontWeight="Bold";

inbox.style.color="Red";

flash();

}

}

function flash()

{

if(inbox.style.visibility=="hidden")inbox.style.visibility="visible";

else inbox.style.visibility="hidden";

setTimeout("flash()",500)

}

</script>

 

Pretty much the same thing... this version is just less flashy.

[Schot 407]

Well thats wierd.. I completely missed this topic. Just happened to notice it on the board index. Ugh.

 

The flashing new msg script was a great idea that we tried on the old forum but in practice it wasn't very popular. One of the reasons we didn't keep it was because it became a game of "Click the link on flash". haha. So we chucked it.

 

For reasons of experimentation I tried both scripts offered up by Rahvin and Kelyndra but without any effect it seems. I'm thinking the popup function might be interfering with those scripts being that a pm is never new if it always pops up?

 

Were you able to get the popup function active Rahvin?

[Guest gogoblender]

I just checked the pm thingy

I get pms no sweat..they open up fer me as soon as I loginto the forum that day or click refresh.

The first thing I get is a pm in the face

 

Rahvin are you having luck with yer popupblocker on this one?

I"m using firefox...maybe it's a setting or soemthing?

gluck

 

gogo

 

[Rahvin 0]

Actually the code I posted is the "click on flash" variety... you can click it anytime, it just flashes the color you specify.