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#51811 01/14/2002 12:32 PM
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can someone tell me how I might go about adding a pm notifier? All I need it to do is, upon entering the board I want it to notify user that they have a pm by playing a sound file, like 'you got mail' or something. nothing fancy. No other links or boxes.


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#51812 01/14/2002 12:34 PM
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There are PM hacks in the beta mods forum.

#51813 01/15/2002 1:43 PM
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quote:
Originally posted by XPerT:
There are PM hacks in the beta mods forum.



um.. I know

however, I am not that cgi suave and the particular hack I am looking for isn't there.

If anyone could just break it down to me which files need to be hacked or a specific beta hack that exists that I just need to change a few lines in I would be more than willing to try this myself.

In case I wasn't clear on what I need to do, here it is again.

Whenever someone logs into the board, if they have new pm/pms, I want a wav file something like 'you got mail' to play to alert the user that he/she has new pm/pms. Nothing else. No little PM table under [user] login. No little pop-up window. Nothing else just the wav file.

If you can help me please reply. It would be much appreciated.


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#51814 04/07/2002 12:43 PM
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I was about to post something similar to this. On UBB 6.05 I had a hack that played a really short little 'thud' if they had a PM. Most of my members are more used to this than looking at the PM notification table.

Anybody willing to remake this?

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^bump^


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#51816 10/31/2002 2:04 AM
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Use the same hack bizkit, but you'll need to edit the hack a bit. Do you need hack with the editing of the code?

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I tried the [ UBB 6.3 ] PM System 1.2 hack and I was trying to add a sound wav instead of the popup but after messing with it for about 2 hours I gave up. I tried every different way I know possible to add a sound but it just wouldn't work. Someone said to simply remove window.alert and add bgsound src in it's place, but I just couldn't figure it out. if I remove the window.alert then the inbox info under the logout link doesn't show up and I could never get any sound to play.

besides that I noticed that when I did have the hack working the way it was intended to work, the popup would notify me everytime I went back to the main forum summary page although I had already checked them. If I had 1 new pm it would say I had 2, then once I checked that pm it still said I had 1. I just hope that this can be fixed. It would be quite annoying to have a sound or popup keep recurring like that.


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#51818 11/01/2002 1:37 AM
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I looked into this issue recently, and among the several million viewers I get to my forum per month, a good percent (around 13%) don't have audio capability, whether because of a lack of speakers, sound card, or both. And a larger percent that do have sound never (or rarely) use it, at around 24%.

So, for their benefit, I decided a popup alert was the better choice, and did away with any ideas I had for a sound.

Just a suggestion...


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