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.
Hello! ElvUI saw in the window a separate chat tab integrated addon Skada, is it possible to integrate Skada in Prat?
Hi!
Is there a way to blacklist certain words from being highlighted as player names? Recently someone with a very short two-letter name joined my guild and it highlights the class color in chat everytime that very common string is used (even in combination/punctuated words). It's extremely annoying to say the least. I don't want to disable colored player names entirely, just in this very specific case.
Anyone else unable to get Prat to adjust the chat frame (height or width).
Even on a fresh character with just Prat and Swatter running.
Everytime I try I get:
Date: 2016-02-13 00:57:23
ID: 1
Error occured in: Global
Count: 2
Message: ..\AddOns\Ace3\AceHook-3.0\AceHook-3.0.lua line 180:
Attempting to rehook already active hook SetChatWindowSavedPosition.
Debug:
(tail call): ?
[C]: ?
Ace3\AceHook-3.0\AceHook-3.0.lua:180:
Ace3\AceHook-3.0\AceHook-3.0.lua:118
Ace3\AceHook-3.0\AceHook-3.0.lua:322: RawHook()
Prat-3.0\modules\ChatFrames.lua:506: OnValueChanged()
Prat-3.0\addon\modules.lua:195:
Prat-3.0\addon\modules.lua:193
(tail call): ?
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[3]"]:9:
[string "safecall Dispatcher[3]"]:5
(tail call): ?
...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua:794:
...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua:614
(tail call): ?
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[3]"]:9:
[string "safecall Dispatcher[3]"]:5
(tail call): ?
Ace3\AceGUI-3.0\AceGUI-3.0.lua:314: Fire()
...ns\Ace3\AceGUI-3.0\widgets\AceGUIWidget-CheckBox.lua:68:
...ns\Ace3\AceGUI-3.0\widgets\AceGUIWidget-CheckBox.lua:57
Locals:
None
((Submitted a Ticket too))
First off, let me say that I LOVE Prat. I was using Chatter but I have definitely switched. :)
So, I do have two issues with it that I can't seem to fix.
1) Being that my AltNames isn't working properly. I have synced with the the guild. All people in the "Alt" rank have their mains name in the note, but Prat does not show me the mains name after the alt automatically. I have to manually add each main toon to each alt toon. When I do this, it says the relation already exists, but there's no indication when they speak in game unless I manually add it myself. Oh, I'm on a connected realm, I'm not sure if that affects the addon doing it automatically.
2) My invite links. They appear yellow as they should, but when clicking the [inv] or [invite] that appears in chat, nothing happens and it does not invite the person to the party.
Thanks so much for all your hard work!
Hey. Thx for great addon.
Same problem as Hellkittenn with AltNames. If i use "import from guild rooster", no new links are added (0 links listed) but if i add new link manually, i get "link already exists". Looks like import problem...
I prefer this over Chatter now. Where can I find information about all the modules? I don't know what they all do.
You can turn the modules all on and use the help tips on the options panels. I think thats the best way to discover all the features. I don't really have any documentation, I used to have a blog, but curse did away with those, so I lost all the articles.
keep getting this:
Error: Original call failed after running hooks for: ChatFrame_OnEvent
Interface\AddOns\Prat-3.0\services\chatsections.lua:608: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'r' (a table value)
Call Chain:
Interface\AddOns\Stubby\Stubby.lua:382: in function <Interface\AddOns\Stubby\Stubby.lua:326>
(tail call): ?
[string "*:OnEvent"]:1: in function <[string "*:OnEvent"]:1>
i believe search works in combat log, though
Prat doesn't work on combat log frames for various historical reasons.
Hi, I have a question and I apologoze if its been addressed before but I couldn't find anything. Is there any way to increase the number of lines of scrollback history for the Pet Battle tab? I have my General tab set at 5000 lines, which is great but it doesn't seem to work for the other tabs. My workaround in the meantime has been to just include Pet Battle combat into the General tab but that creates a lot of clutter amongst normal chat.
Thanks so much!
whenever people in raid or me try to use fast group linking {g1}, {g2} i get this error message
Error: Original call failed after running hooks for: ChatFrame_OnEvent
Interface\AddOns\Prat-3.0\services\chatsections.lua:608: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'r' (a table value)
Call Chain:
Interface\AddOns\Stubby\Stubby.lua:382: in function <Interface\AddOns\Stubby\Stubby.lua:326>
(tail call): ?
[string "*:OnEvent"]:1: in function <[string "*:OnEvent"]:1>
any clue how to fix it?
How can I get guild chat to ALWAYS show the server name suffix for guild members in the connected realm? It's a it of a trouble always having to open the guild menu to invite guildies that are on the connected realm.
I've been looking in PlayerNames.lua, but I'm not sure which lines format chat. I was looking at updateGuild(). I understand that GetGuildRosterInfo() will return the full Name-Server to the first output variable, and that you are calling addName() to add the server. But I don't know where/how this gets formatted for guild chat.
It works! Just tested it :) Much appreciated!
The new version has a fix that should hopefully address your issue. It wont show the server name, but the link should work now. So you can shift click it or ALT click to invite, or however you like to do it.
I can't test. I tried for a while to get into a guild on a connected realm but no luck, so I gave up.
Sorry to say that is isn't a prat issue. These are all default keyboard operations in an editbox in the bliz client::
Ctrl-P is back in the history, ctrl-N is forward in the history, Ctrl-U is clear current line, Ctrl-W is delete one word
Ctrl F is cursor forward, and ctrl-b is cursor backward
These work with or without the ALT/ALTGR key down.
So I am not sure if there is anything that I can do.
The only thing I could suggest is creating a CustomFilter on something like "oe" that would convert it to "ö". I tested it and it works fine as a workaround. Create an outbound filer on "oe" (or whatever) as the match text and "ö" as the replacement text.
You can then type Foe and it will send Fö.
Hope that helps
Eventhough I love Prat, there has been an error that has been persistent in all versions so far.
When I try to use AltGr+P to write ö (commonly used when writing Turksih), it, before printing the character on screen, acts as if I pressed the UP Arrow button to scroll to the previous text and also locks me out of printing it multiple times in a row.
An example, if I have written these mesagges:
/s 1
/s 2
/s 3
Then proceed to try to type "/s ö", the moment I press AltGR+P to print ö, this happens:
/s 3ö
When pressed again, it changes to
/s 2ö
etc. etc.
I hope this was clear enough of an explanation. This is the only issue I have had so far with this AddOn, and, instead of expecing it this very minor bug to be noticed, I figured maybe I should report it myself :)
I don't expect this to get fixed anytime soon, but if it is possible to fix it, it would make my live a little bit easier. Thanks for the amazing AddOn.
Not sure if it's just my game messing with me or not, but the word "not" is always colored differently from the rest of my text and I can't figure out what's going on or how to change it!
You have someone in your guild named "Not"
You can use a slash command to stop the coloring:
/pratblacklist Not
Hold down the ctrl key when clicking the copy icon. You will get more/all of the text