---
title: Fluid Scripts for Campfire
teaser: Improve your campfire experience via a Fluid app.
tags: news,osx,open source
author: Chad Pytel
published_on: 2008-03-06
---
## Growl when someone says your name, and better behavior in Fluid
At thoughtbot we're a distributed team: 7 in Boston, 3 in New York City, 1 in
Chicago, another in San Francisco, and myself in Philadelphia - we use
[Campfire](https://www.campfirenow.com) constantly for team communication
throughout the day. Almost all of us used [Pyro](http://www.karppinen.fi/pyro/)
to access Campfire, but after upgrading to Leopard things started going downhill
-- so we started experimenting with [Fluid](http://fluidapp.com).
We've been toying with these scripts for a while with Greasekit, and now that
Fluid has been upgraded with built in userscripting, I figure its time to get it
out there.
The one feature that we all wanted was some notification when someone said your
name in Campfire, so thats the first script I made - we call it Campfire Name
Watcher. When the fluid application window doesn't have focus, and someone says
your name (or any word or phrase you provide) Fluid sends a Growl notification.
I have mine set to make a sound as well. Just for fun, It'll also highlight
your name.
This works especially well when you enable tabbed browsing in your Fluid
Campfire app, and open each Campfire room in a separate tab. Now, not only will
you get notified when you're not in the Fluid app itself, but you'll get
notified when someone in another chat room that you're currently not paying
attention to says your name.
The name watcher script uses cookies to persist your list of things to watch
for, so that you don't need to resupply it every time. The first time you go
into Campfire with this script installed, it'll ask you to provide a comma
separated list of things to watch for:
To edit the list of names, right click on the campfire app dock icon and choose
Name Watcher.
Opening each room in another window is really nice, as it allows you to quickly
switch between rooms, and makes your Campfire Fluid app even more like Pyro.
However, the UI gets messy because you have your Fluid tabs as well as the HTML Campfire tabs.
The second script is a bunch of stylesheet and behavior changes to make using
Fluid tabs, and Fluid in general with Campfire more useable. Unfortunately, its
not possible to script things to open in new tabs in Fluid, so you have to make
sure to Apple-Click the links in the Lobby to get new tabs.
The script hides all the HTML
tabs:
and moves their functionality into dock menu items:
It also makes other little changes to make it better to use Fluid with campfire,
for example, it makes it so that if the input box doesn't have focus and you
begin to type, it'll move focus to the input box, and it makes it so that search
and other function open in new windows.
Get the scripts from:
[https://svn.thoughtbot.com/hackfest/campfire/fluid/campfireFluid.user.js](https://svn.thoughtbot.com/hackfest/campfire/fluid/campfireFluid.user.js)
[https://svn.thoughtbot.com/hackfest/campfire/fluid/campfireNameWatcher.user.js](https://svn.thoughtbot.com/hackfest/campfire/fluid/campfireNameWatcher.user.js)
Get Fluid from here:
[http://fluidapp.com](http://fluidapp.com)
Get a nice icon for it here:
[http://www.37signals.com/svn/images/campfire-logo-for-fluid.png](http://www.37signals.com/svn/images/campfire-logo-for-fluid.png)
Things in Fluid and userscripting are rough right now, consider it the wild west
of campfire. Lots of us at thoughtbot are using these scripts and Fluid on a
day to day basis now, but we're definitely not quite there yet in where I'd want
the actual functionality and usability of all of this to be. I'd definitely be
interested in hearing your thoughts and even getting your patches.
Visit our [Open Source page](https://thoughtbot.com/open-source) to learn more about our team's contributions.