Prat 3.0
In loving memory of Jon Akthar (Sylvanaar)
Hello WoW community, I'm LuciferCatnip, Sylvanaar was my coworker and my mentor. It goes without saying that Jon was an amazingly talented individual. He always seemed to know everything... but he once said to me "It's not about knowing the answers, it's about asking the right questions", he always challenged me to ask me the right questions until I would arrive at the answer on my own terms. Jon was also a champion of the open source movement, and so with special thanks to Gil from Curseforge as well as Sylvanaar's family, there's no better way to honor Sylvanaar's legacy than to keep his project going strong in the community.
If you'd like to help maintain Prat, please reach out to MysticalOS or LuciferCatnip directly. Thank you so much.
About
Prat-3.0 is a chat enhancement addon for World of Warcraft.
It is made up of 30+ smaller "modules" which each provide additional functionality, and can be enabled or disabled individually.
In game, type /prat for a menu. Or use the icon on one of the many data broker hosts.
Prat has just about every feature you can think of, and then some. Really. When I get some more time, I'll try and put together a full list (Even I have lost count)
(Thanks to Dreamsight for this partial list)
- Sync your chat settings across your account (Beta)
- AI powered spam filter (Beta)
- Change arrows, buttons, mouse scroll for chat scroll, scroll speed
- you can add player color per channel, color per level, color per class
- timestamps (styled)
- whether to show timestamp (what format the timestamp should be in)
- whether to show players level
- you can select the option for channel "stickys" (last channel you used you auto use when hitting enter, that sort of thing – or last thing someone said)
- change the looks of the chat's editbox - as well as where it appears (you can even undock it and move it to where you'd like it to be)
- chat fading, fading delay
- You can change the font to a list of fonts, add an outline to it, monochrome it (if you don’t mind messing with files a bit you could probably even add other fonts to that list)
- change the chat frame/chat box appearance
- Keep chat history between game sessions
- Set channel abbreviations
- set brackets and color(or something instead of brackets)round player/lvl
- alt invite option (press keyboard “alt” button and click on the player’s name to auto inv them)
- raid icon
- invite links - click them to invite the person
- URL copying
- Full chat copying + copy button
- Click timestamp to copy line
- Configurable alerts when your name or other word is mentioned
- enables tell target /tt which whispers your target
- Alias options - make macros into short commands
- See names of players Alt characters
- change chat sounds (incoming and outgoing as well as per channel)
- Achievements info and grats
- Full chat search and search box
- Customizable filters for advanced users
- Show item icon next to item links and player class icon next to player names
- Icon-only options for newcomers chat
- Optional flashing or font color change for chat tabs when a new message comes in.
You can enable/disable all Prat modules - don't have to have the ones you don't use running
While trying to reduce resource utilization, it is also important to note that some people prefer the features, and don't care that an addon uses 500k more.
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lucifercatnip Owner
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humfras Author
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MrFIXlT Author
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MysticalOS Author
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plusmouse Author
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pompachomp Contributor
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QTartemis Author
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SunnySunflow Translator
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sylvanaar Former Author
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Posted Sep 28, 2015please refer to post http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/prat-3-0#c3849 as I just created a new one rather than reply to this one that was buried by walls of dumps.
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Posted Aug 12, 2015I have a hard time right clicking and "Ignore" player. It always says Player not found. I always have to click the chat frame text popup then copy and paste the name-server to manually /ignore.
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Posted Aug 5, 2015Hello,
When I use the arrow up or down, this is never the last text that is displayed is very random, can you fix this problem?
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Posted Jul 16, 2015nice but there are 2 things i edit in every version:
1. i add the original arial font
2. i change the default channels for custom filters to "channel"
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Posted Jul 8, 2015I have used prat for a long time and it's a solid addon. One thing I've noticed recently though, two different guildies show will show as one of their alts in chat. A 100 hunter shows as his lvl 90 druid and a 100 warrior shows as his lvl1 priest. Any thoughts or ideas on this? I have reset the defaults and reinstalled the addon and it still isn't functioning correctly.
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Posted Jul 3, 2015Trying to import data from GuildGreet Extended results in the following error:
Edit: Created a ticket on WoWAce as well. :)
http://www.wowace.com/addons/prat-3-0/tickets/736-import-data-from-guild-greet/
Date: 2015-07-03 17:46:06
ID: 14
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\Prat-3.0\modules\AltNames.lua line 1846:
bad argument #1 to 'pairs' (table expected, got number)
Debug:
[C]: pairs()
Prat-3.0\modules\AltNames.lua:1846:
Prat-3.0\modules\AltNames.lua:1830
(tail call): ?
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[4]"]:9:
[string "safecall Dispatcher[4]"]:5
(tail call): ?
...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua:586: OnAccept()
..\FrameXML\StaticPopup.lua:4082: StaticPopup_OnClick()
[string "*:OnClick"]:1:
[string "*:OnClick"]:1
Locals:
None
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Posted Sep 27, 2015I took your advice (and code) and added the feature back, Thanks for the contribution!
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Posted Jun 30, 2015It's been a while and I'm returning to WoW. Coming back, I noticed that Smart Group has yet to be fixed. I have updated it to work with instance chat:
Copy the code above and replace the function of the same name near the bottom of ChannelSticky.lua while removing all of the double dashes - - from the beginning of the lines between 262-266, 300-305, and 457 all the way to the end. Leave the very last line alone, which reads:
end ) -- Prat:AddModuleToLoad
EDIT: Doing some digging, I found the change note for removing Smart Group in the first place nearly THREE years ago. /group was a conflict to WoW's /group, which changed the loot type to group loot. Such a silly reason to drop a whole module, just change the slash commands
On lines 464 and 465 of ChannelSticky.lua, replace "/gr" and "/group" with "/smrt" and "/smart". A two character command isn't really necessary, since Smart Group should really be an assigned key. In the Bindings.xml file in the main Prat 3.0 folder, edit line 73 to reflect one of the two new commands. For anyone wanting a better slash command, just edit for yourselves. I looked at /sg and /sm but other addons have those. If I have time later, I might mess with the code further to give an editable setting for the slash command.
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Posted Jun 26, 2015Doesnt work anymore, and it is updated. There is no colour class, sticky is on, and /prat does not work to get into option :(
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Posted Jun 24, 2015How soon before we can see a 6.2 version? This is one Addon I recommend to so many players if for no other reason than the DBM New Release Warnings & the Pop-Up Window that allows Weblnks.
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Posted Jul 1, 2015"DBM New Release Warnings" come from DBM, obviously. Nothing to do with Prat.
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Posted Jun 20, 2015I tried using this addon and after I while I noticed I wasn't getting real ID whispers. I couldn't figure it out. I could send them and see them but I could not recieve them. After messing with the add on and looking through all the settings, I uninstalled it. I'm hoping you can fix whatever issue it was. Sorry I can't give any more info other than it just didn't show the messages recieved.
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Posted Jun 28, 2015That issue was resolved for me, by clearing my battle.net app's cache folder on my computer - completely unrelated to this addon. It might be what you were experiencing if you use the b.net app. Google its location because there are a few different places it can be depending on your install directory.
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Posted May 31, 2015how do i turn off the default number that appears to the right of my name in chat? for example (Playername) (631.1)
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Posted May 25, 2015If you are on a server that has merged, ALT-click invite and other features are broken.
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Posted May 16, 2015Hey, I downloaded this addon, and I noticed that when using the addon tongues, with this, I cannot see languages spoken outside of my racial, even if tongues is set to recognise them. I did this with Demonic, and only saw the translation of demonic, and not what I was saying. I disabled Prat, and that seemed to work. I searched the settings, and forums, but found no solution. I would appreciate any help. Have a nice day :)
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Posted May 24, 2015I second this!
It makes Prat unusable if you want private whispers in their own tabs.
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Posted May 9, 2015http://www.wowace.com/addons/prat-3-0/tickets/503-modules-not-applying-to-new-4-0-6-whisper-tabs/
Any chance to solve this problem?? I really like this addon but because of the whispers tab I just cant use it.
"Expecting to see similar settings apply from other tabs as per module settings to this one
Instead several modules seem to not recognise the creation of the tab, with noticeably the scroll buttons still being visible and the editbox being docked on the bottom irrespective of the configuration through the UI."
Am I doing something wrong by configuranting the addon?
PS: English is not my native language, sorry about possibles grammar mistakes etc.
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Posted May 8, 2015Do like it as well but anytime I start up the game or reload I have to switch back and forth between the tabs to see any text. Is there anyway to fix this? dont know what setting to tamer with :P
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Posted May 1, 2015I recently installed this app and i love it. the only problem i am having is some of the chat fonts do not change. Was wondering if anyone else i having this problem and if anyone knows how to fix it. Was going to read comments to find out but there are a whole lot of them lol. dont want to read that much.