Fluid and Status Screen Saver?

There's this great new screen saver I just found (via TUAW), called the Status Screen Saver.

http://www.loganrockmore.com/StatusSc...

Now whenever there's unread mail in Mail.app, unread posts in NetNewsWire, or unread tweets in Twitterific, it gives you a little logo of the app, with the unread count.

Now apparently, this is customizable via modules.
From TUAW: "Even better, Status Screen Saver allows you to (with some AppleScripting) create your own "modules" which opens up unlimited possibilities to what can be shown in Status Screen Saver. So, if you use something other than the supported applications, you can (if the application is scriptable) make an AppleScript to give a number, then place it in the Screen Saver.saver/Contents/Resources/ directory."

I use Gmail (Google Apps, actually) via Fluid. Is it possible to incorporate an unread count from its Fluid SSB to the Status Screen Saver?

I’m hopeful

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Todd, Official Rep, replied on May 23, 2008 19:33

hmm.. with Fluid's current (very limited) AppleScript support... unfortunately, this is probably not possible. I'd like to add better AppleScript support, but I'll be candid... it's not a top priority and will not appear before 1.0. There are too many other more exciting things I'd like to do... and also I think it's fair to say that adding scriptability to an app is very difficult and arcane. :0[

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TImothy Andrew replied on May 24, 2008 02:18

I see. No matter, I'll wait. :)

I’m still hopeful

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dontwannaregister replied on May 24, 2008 21:15

This is VERY easy to do already with a dirty hack - just did it, even with Fluid's rudimentary Applescript support.

It requires a userscript in Fluid and an applescript module in Status Screen Saver.

The userscript appends the unread count to the window title: like so:

document.title = ( document.title + " -:- " + unreadCount );

Then the applescript goes:

set theString to 0

tell application "Fluid Browser Application Name"
if (count of windows) > 0 then
set theString to (name of window 1)
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to " -:- "
set theString to (text item 2 of theString)
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to " "
set theString to (text item 1 of theString)
end if
end tell

return theString as number

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