Flashing New Posts w/Direction

[rhondairv]

I would like a code that when there is a new post it blinks in the circled areas on the home page where all the boards are and inside where all the sub boards are. When you click on the blinking area it takes you right to the newest post made.



Thanks for the consideration

[Wormopolis]

quick question... did it let you choose a posting icon somehow? That should have been disabled for you... wtf...

I think I can do this though...

[Wormopolis]

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
// last post new post redux
// concept by rhondairv
// coding by Wormopolis - www.wormocodes.com
// do not repost - keep header intact

var newPostRegardless=true; //if you want link to last post to go to actual last post regardless if new

for (tds=document.getElementsByTagName('td'), f=0; f<tds.length; f++) {
if (tds[f].width=='24%' && tds[f].className.match(/windowbg/) && tds[f].getElementsByTagName('a')[0]) {
lstpst=(tds[f].getElementsByTagName('a')[tds[f].getElementsByTagName('a').length-1]);
newpstchk=tds[f].previousSibling.previousSibling.previousSibling.previousSibling;
newpstchk=(newpstchk.firstChild.alt=='[/li][li]');
if (newpstchk) lstpst.innerHTML="<span class='blinky'>"+lstpst.innerHTML+"</span>";
if (newpstchk || newPostRegardless) lstpst.href=lstpst.href.replace(/display/,'gotonewpost');
}
}

function blinker() {
for (ff=document.getElementsByTagName('span'), ffb=0; ffb<ff.length; ffb++) {
if (ff[ffb].className=='blinky') ff[ffb].style.visibility=(ff[ffb].style.visibility=='hidden' ? '' : 'hidden');
}
}
var blinkwork=self.setInterval("blinker()", 1000);

// -->
</script>

[tunescool]

cool, i was just looking at a code like this in the request archives at pbs that didnt work. nice idea rhondairv

[Wormopolis]

the hard part was getting blink to work. normal blink HTML doesnt work in IE, so I had to write something special.

[rhondairv]

The blinking is AWESOME!!!! I LOVE THIS!!

Thanks Tunescool

Curious.... is there no way to make it direct to the newest post made though? I am new to proboards and love it, but never seen a forum where you click on the new post name but it takes you to the 1st post made.

[Silly Test Account]

it can only know what is "new" to your computer based on what number the PBS server has stored as the last post you looked at in that thread. If you havent been to that thread in a long time, then "new" might have been reset. click the link a second time and it should take you to the last post. if someone makes a new post after that, it will take you to the first new post from then on.

its just the first time you click it, on a thread you havent been in for a long time, will it consider the first post to be the newest. I cant do anything about that. You have to take that up with management.

[rhondairv]

OK, i understand that. Thanks so much for explaining that. It makes sense to me and i can quit obsessing over it now. lol

[rhondairv]

I redid my homepage and for some reason even when i make a new post i get the flashing as if someone else made a new post. WEIRD. It didn't do it til i redid my homepage.

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[Wormopolis]

if you make posts in a sub-board the main board will still register it as a new post on the main page. visit the main board (above the sub-boards) and it will clear it

[Wormopolis]

what did you do to "redo your homepage"?

[rhondairv]

Sub Boards galore lol So it is me that made it go weird.