New PM Popups

Could the behavior of private message tracking be modified so that when new messages are read through the pop-up, they are marked as having been read? There's an obsessive email part of me that loves the notification, but doesn't want to read every message twice to get rid of the Unread X in the corner.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

While that is a useful method for removing the Unread tally when messages have piled up, it doesn't cover the main issue, which is messages not being noted as read in the first place. Having not delved into the mechanics of vB, it still does seem like an addition of a bool assignment line item would solve this. It would also stop the same pop-ups occurring multiple times.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by ramoth

When you're working on any large codebase, the hard part is not knowing what line of code to write, but knowing where to put it. And figuring that out can take ages.

I realize this. I work with a massive installed base of Fortran created by people who didn't comment or format in my daily work. Fortran is the devil. However, point noted.

Originally Posted by Kaleb.G

Add a button to the pop up window that says "Mark as Read & Close".

This seems like a reasonable alternative to my original suggestion of a default or selectable behavior, as it would allow compromise for AcerBandit's valid concerns.

Considering the amount of pushback, I don't expect this to ever happen, but it's an annoyance I figured I'd investigate getting changed. Thanks for the explanation of the vB background cookie and I'll try out the method you suggested Zerg.

How ya doing, buddy?