function showMessage(countText) {
	if (countText>messageCount) {

		if (document.getElementById("messageAlert")) { 
				
			var bingTags = '<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0" width="20" height="20" id="bing" align="middle"> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" /> <param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="movie" value="/messaging/messagebing.swf?snd=1" /> <param name="quality" value="high" /> <param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" /> <embed src="/messaging/messagebing.swf?snd=1"  quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="20" height="20" name="bing" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" /></object> ';
			document.getElementById('messageAlert').innerHTML = bingTags+'<a href="javascript:open_window(\'/messaging/message_admin.php?action=read\',\'messsageAdmin\',\'features\')">Messages</a> (<span id="messageCount">'+countText+'</span>)';
			self.focus();
			document.getElementById("messageAlert").style["display"]='block';
		}
			
	} else {
		document.getElementById('messageCount').innerHTML = countText;
	}
	messageCount=countText;
}

function checkMessages(myConn) {
	var fnWhenDone = function (myConn) { 
		//alert(myConn.responseText);
		if (myConn.responseText>0){
			showMessage(myConn.responseText);
		} else {
			if (document.getElementById("messageAlert")) {
				document.getElementById("messageAlert").style["display"]='none';
			}
		}
	};

	myConn.connect("/messaging/check.php", "GET", "", fnWhenDone);
	
	setTimeout("checkMessages(myConn)", 28000);	
}


function sendDiscloseStatus(hmodule,hstatus) {
 	if (discloseStatusConn) {
 		discloseStatusConn.connect("/messaging/setDiscloseStatus.php", "GET", "module="+hmodule+"&status="+hstatus, null);
 	}
}

var myConn = new XHConn();
if (myConn) {checkMessages(myConn);}

var discloseStatusConn = new XHConn();