Blinking PM Notification at top of forum & thread list

[Steve St.Lauren]

First let me thank Chen for his blink PM bar on new PM hack which this was based off of ( http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=32299 ). Problem was that I have a LOT of lazy users on our site who don't scroll down to the bottom of the forum list to see the pm notification. I also didn't want to take up excess room at the top of our forums with the full Private message folder information. This hack will display a flashing bar at the top of the forum list and the thread list that says "**** You have unread Private Messages ****" if the user is logged in, and has any unread private messages. The flashing of the bar is not compatible with Chen's hack, btw. I have tested it on our site which is V2.2.7.

[MindTrix]

Can we see some screen shots please because i cant understand how this is different to Chen's! Cheers

[Steve St.Lauren]

Here you go. The difference is that it's near the top instead of the bottom so as soon as a person loads a page they will see it instead of having to scroll down to see it. It is a one line message up there so it doesn't take up as much room. Lastly it shows up on the thread list once you are in a forum in addition to showing up on the home page. Here is a screen shot from our forums - the unread private message line blinks.

[MindTrix]

Ahh right. On Chen's one it made the PM box flash etc, which was usualy also at the top depending on where you moved the variable ;)

Nice work all the same mate, thanks for the screenshot.

[Steve St.Lauren]

The traditional private message folder and folder information is still there as well. I don't like taking up that much space at the top of the forum/thread list and with this one if you don't have a pm it doesn't take up any space at all up there. It's also on the thread list as well. Included screen shots of both.

[Steve St.Lauren]

Released for 3.0.3 - http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=68135