Hiding The Nofify programmably

[BuffaloBrennan]

Hi, hopefully someone can help

I been looking for a Notify that can attached itself to an object and this works brilliantly

in my header.php file, used for all my screens, I have a small "Bull Horn" symbol that I use to display the number of messages waiting to be displayed, similar to Facebooks notifications. I use the following code:

I then set up the rest with:

$.notify.defaults({autoHide: false, arrowSize: 10}) ;

function checkForNotifications() {
$.getJSON("/server_side/scripts/ajax_retrieveNumberOfNotificationsForStaffID.php?staffID=", function (data) {
$.each(data.theData, function (i, data) {
if (data.noOfMessages != 0 ) {
$(".showNotifications").notify(data.noOfMessages, {position: "right", className: "info"});
}
});
});
}

setInterval(checkForNotifications,2000);

and it works great constantly checks great,works sweet as a nut..

Click on the Bullhorn and I use Nofify again to display the individual messages waiting. However, the other screens still say there are messages, because the Notify is only displayed is there are any. What I want to use, is an else to make it disappear on the next interval. I've tried various methods, but it either stayes there or the messages I want to see are also deleted/removed from the screen.

If anyone has any ideas that would be great.

However, because this is used on all screens - the other screens show the