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.
At the moment, I am using "Leatrix Plus" anyway, so I do not mind to have to use a second addon for what I would like to suggest to you:
Amongst other things it has the ability to "hide the combat log". It does so by rename the combat log to a blank space and reduces the size of the text and the corresponding tab to a minimum. Then it fades the tab out. This way it looks like the combat log is gone.
Maybe it would be a nice idea to implement a similar ability in Prat, too.
In reply to bezat22:
In reply to bezat22:
Feature Request.
I was wondering if I can request a feature? I love prat but feel it could be made just a little bit better. There used to be and old addon called chatter that had an awesome feature. A Groupsay (/gr) command to talk to your group, whether that's battleground, raid, or party. Would this be possible to integrate into Prat? Thanks.
In reply to Forge_User_94142338:
In reply to sylvanaar:
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In reply to lilikari:
With Prat enabled, I am no longer able to turn off the whisper channel in a chat window. Hopefully that is getting fixed soon; I have to use another addon meanwhile.
In reply to bezat22:
@ sylvanaarHi i have a problem with achievements grats since the new updates. To do rbgs people want you link via whispers your achievement and prat send achievement + date + grats in this whispers
In reply to cancerberus:
In reply to cancerberus:
In reply to sylvanaar:
Hello, I have a problem with the update when I receive mail in my box to the letter I do not see it anymore. How to solve the problem? I still disable the addon to confirm that the update was the problem.
Ps : The icon came back after deactivation / reactivation of the addon can you still look into the worries? or if it starts again, thanks in advance
In reply to mathynal:
In reply to sylvanaar:
Look i have a mail and not the icone.
https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2018/22/2/1527620098-wowscrnshot-052918-205024.jpg
In reply to mathynal:
New grats feature is great, would very much like to change what it says though.