Discussion: News Flash v1.0.1

[Afkamm]

Because of this thread, I wrote this module to display the latest news in a popup as it happened.

Ajax code is from CavemanJoe, basic news code is from the Dragonprime Team and the CSS that makes the popup stay put is by Stuart A Nicholls.

Not forgetting MightyE whose original idea it was in the first place.

Please post bugs and stuff here.

File Download: Here

[HunterD]

This works incredibly well, Marc.  Thank you so much for working on this! 

[Afkamm]

No problem. The news page isn't something a lot of people bother about. Being able to see it as it happens can be fun as you can quickly make fun of a friend when something happens to them.

[Stephen Kise]

! This is similar to what I needed for my modded bios, so I have a popup at the top of the bio when an action is done. I am sure this can be rewritten to suit my needs. Thank you very much, Afkamm

[Neltharion]

This is great and has not been too taxing on our server.  Thanks!

[HunterD]

Hey Marc?  I noticed.. the module doesn't pull translations from the table?

[Afkamm]

I had a quick look and noticed that the code for getting the news was missing the two tlschema() lines. Silly me.

Thanks for pointing this out.

Added them and uploaded new files.

[HunterD]

Mille grazie!

[Aeo •]

A possible idea (seeing as that I'm not too flash with AJAX/CSS) would be to put a little X button in the top right corner to close the news flash upon player demand. I've hand many a time where it's blocked my YoMs/User Editor/Petitions/etc., and it seems to take a while to disappear. I could just keep waiting for it to disappear, but just an idea. xD