Rahvin 0 Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 Any chance of making it more noticeable when you have a new PM? Link to comment
SURFSIDE 0 Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 When I get a new PM on this forum it comes as a pop up first........very fast and noticeable for me.... Link to comment
Scleameth 19 Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 Rahvin, this might sound daft, but in "your control panel" did you select "yes" for notification of new PMs in the Board settings ? Link to comment
Kelyndra 0 Posted July 4, 2006 Share Posted July 4, 2006 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. Link to comment
Rahvin 0 Posted July 4, 2006 Author Share Posted July 4, 2006 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. Link to comment
Kelyndra 0 Posted July 4, 2006 Share Posted July 4, 2006 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 MarkupuserLinks=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. Link to comment
Schot 407 Posted July 5, 2006 Share Posted July 5, 2006 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? Link to comment
Guest gogoblender Posted July 5, 2006 Share Posted July 5, 2006 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 Link to comment
Rahvin 0 Posted July 6, 2006 Author Share Posted July 6, 2006 Actually the code I posted is the "click on flash" variety... you can click it anytime, it just flashes the color you specify. Link to comment
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