I think what nifkin has made is not a solution ot he problem you wanted.
I think you wanted it to highlight the latst comment in a discussion 'when you opened it up'.
This extension highlights the latest thread 'when you post it'.
Try and post a comment to see what I mean. On submission, it will glow (in your case, pulse) yellow.
I am not sure if this is what you were after, bu thtis is what the extension does.
I hope that helps?
I think what nifkin has made is not a solution ot he problem you wanted.
All I did was add the YellowFade.js to everything, anything it does beyond that is just based on what's anchor is being called. Apparently when you hit the anchor for a new post after making one (ie: #Comment_4, a DIV with an ID applied to it) it works peachy. But when you go to a thread it uses #Item_4 to reference a named anchor, an inline element with no text or background space to highlight.
If you really want to try to rewrite the linking/XHTML structure of every page to make it always work you're welcome to do so.
I was mistaken. IT does, in fact work on everything. But I modiefied it slightly, to only work on selected pages.
Your one, does in fact do as you describe. Sorry.
No inline JavaScript. Simply give an element a class of "fade", the script does the rest “automagically�.
Background color aware. FAT will do better than simply fade to white if the element (or it's parents) have a CSS background color, it will fade to that background color instead.
Fade from any color. For example, if you wanted a list of error messages to fade out from red you would simply give the list a class of "fade-FF0000".
Super smooth fading. By default, elements will fade at 30 frames per second (the same rate as a television) over 3 seconds. You can adjust this to any framerate and any duration. You could easily fade elements at 60 frames per second over 4, 5, 10 seconds!
Good luck modifying all of Mark's code to add the "fade" class to the elements you want this code to work on. Another approach, and one I recommend, is to adapt the Javascript so that it accepts an array of CSS classes to apply the fade to, and then select from the element/class pairs that already exist.
O.k..i was looking for this effect mins ago and i found this thread. I uploaded the extension file to the extension folder and also the .js to the .js folder but it don't seem to work. I get this error after posting a comment to see if it works or not :
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/user/public_html/yourdomain/forum/extensions/YellowFade.php:1) in /home/user/public_html/yourdomain/forum/controls/Common.Controls.php on line 126
oppss...sorry now it's working, some thing was wrong with the extension file, there were some spaces in the beginning of the php file. Sorry guys..thanks.
Are you on 0.9.2 or 0.9.3? As far as i know this only works on 0.9.3.
I still haven't installed 0.9.3 to test it on, it was originally written for 0.9.2 but it should (fingers crossed) work fine as long as 0.9.3 didn't change how you add another JS file to the page template.
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Took me 13 seconds to get this to work. Nice job guys. See Mark, I told you extensions would make this baby really shine!
what's the trick for a single flash?
var StartFadeAt = 28;to
var StartFadeAt = 14;Or use this one I prepared earlier :P
http://server.skoap.com/YellowFade.js
All I did was add the YellowFade.js to everything, anything it does beyond that is just based on what's anchor is being called. Apparently when you hit the anchor for a new post after making one (ie: #Comment_4, a
DIVwith an ID applied to it) it works peachy. But when you go to a thread it uses #Item_4 to reference a named anchor, an inline element with no text or background space to highlight.If you really want to try to rewrite the linking/XHTML structure of every page to make it always work you're welcome to do so.
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Good luck modifying all of Mark's code to add the "fade" class to the elements you want this code to work on. Another approach, and one I recommend, is to adapt the Javascript so that it accepts an array of CSS classes to apply the fade to, and then select from the element/class pairs that already exist.
Am I right in thing that if I want to change the colour i edit the part that starts:
var FadeSteps = new Array();
FadeSteps[1] = "ff";
which then carries on to 28?
I still haven't installed 0.9.3 to test it on, it was originally written for 0.9.2 but it should (fingers crossed) work fine as long as 0.9.3 didn't change how you add another JS file to the page template.