Possible Forum Module Addon?

Hi All,

I’ve ran into a snag that I’m hoping I can get someone to help me out with. I have the forum module and use it when posting entries. For those that don’t know, you get an extra tab when publishing called “Forum” where you can put in a forum title & description and get to set which forum the topic will be created in when you publish your entry.

The problem is that the forum tab does not take into account the idea of delayed publishing. What I mean by that is if I set an entry to go live 24 hours from now, the forum topic will still go live immediately. This obviously isn’t a good thing as it will confuse the forum visitors if they see a new topic but no entry.

I would like to know if anyone else has ran into this and what they’ve done to work around it. Furthermore, I’d be willing to pay for a mod if possible. I don’t know the forum code at all but one would think it wouldn’t be too hard to plug in some sort of if statement along the lines of:

if (pub_date <= NOW)
  {
    show thread
  }

If anyone could help me out, I’d be very grateful!