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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MrFIXlT Author
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Posted Jun 20, 2018Got a usage error in Achievements.lua at line 943 after completing a Guild Achievement. My guess is that 'thierPlayerGuid' is 'nil' for a guild cheev.
btw 'thier' is spelt 'their' :-)
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Posted Jun 26, 2018In reply to WildCard_25:
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Posted Jun 19, 2018Can we PLEASE have Expressway font added to the font pack?
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Posted Jun 26, 2018In reply to llauren:
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Posted Jun 12, 2018some people misusing grats by spamming it 100 times, ihmo it should be throttled to only allow once / person for achievement.
but maybe its just me, and you guys have different opinion about it.
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Posted Jun 12, 2018Just got this when logging in post-maintenance, may be related to the minipatch that hit this morning, I wasn't getting it previously (I logged into my hunter although I doubt that matters):
Prat-3.0-r1146 \modules\PlayerNames.lua:1187: attempt to index local 'Name' (a nil value)
Prat-3.0-r1146 \modules\PlayerNames.lua:1187: in function `?'
...ore\libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0-6.lua:145: in function <...ore\libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:145>
[string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:4: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:4>
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:13: in function `?'
...ore\libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0-6.lua:90: in function `Fire'
DataStore\libs\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0-4.lua:120: in function <DataStore\libs\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0.lua:119>
Locals:
nil
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Posted Jun 6, 2018Grats module is interesting. Not something I'm personally interested in using, I'd rather either ignore achievements or respond with a real grats.
That being said, it's really awkward that I'm able to grats myself. Especially when I didn't realize what that thing did.
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Posted Jun 10, 2018In reply to Shishire:
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Posted Jun 6, 2018New install, made some changes to settings and get this error after logging off and on again. Can't open options window.
[06:53:20 AM] [Error 000001C24C7D9D00] captured, click the link for more information.
[06:53:23 AM] ...rid\Libs\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0-66.lua:1831: AceConfigRegistry-3.0-18:ValidateOptionsTable(): Prat.args.display.args.Prat_ChannelSticky.plugins.ctype.instance_chat.name: expected a string or funcref, got 'nil'
[06:53:23 AM] [C]: ?
...Libs\AceConfigRegistry-3.0\AceConfigRegistry-3.0-18.lua:50: in function <...Libs\AceConfigRegistry-3.0\AceConfigRegistry-3.0.lua:45>
...Libs\AceConfigRegistry-3.0\AceConfigRegistry-3.0-18.lua:189: in function <...Libs\AceConfigRegistry-3.0\AceConfigRegistry-3.0.lua:184>
...Libs\AceConfigRegistry-3.0\AceConfigRegistry-3.0-18.lua:223: in function <...Libs\AceConfigRegistry-3.0\AceConfigRegistry-3.0.lua:198>
...Libs\AceConfigRegistry-3.0\AceConfigRegistry-3.0-18.lua:242: in function <...Libs\AceConfigRegistry-3.0\AceConfigRegistry-3.0.lua:198>
...Libs\AceConfigRegistry-3.0\AceConfigRegistry-3.0-18.lua:233: in function <...Libs\AceConfigRegistry-3.0\AceConfigRegistry-3.0.lua:198>
...Libs\AceConfigRegistry-3.0\AceConfigRegistry-3.0-18.lua:233: in function <...Libs\AceConfigRegistry-3.0\AceConfigRegistry-3.0.lua:198>
...Libs\AceConfigRegistry-3.0\AceConfigRegistry-3.0-18.lua:261: in function `ValidateOptionsTable'
...Libs\AceConfigRegistry-3.0\AceConfigRegistry-3.0-18.lua:303: in function `app'
...rid\Libs\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0-66.lua:1831: in function `Open'
Interface\AddOns\Prat-3.0-r1146 \addon\options-Options.lua:610: in function `ToggleOptionsWindow'
Interface\AddOns\Prat-3.0-r1146 \addon\options-Options.lua:470: in function `?'
Interface\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:4547: in function <Interface\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:4494>
[C]: in function `ChatEdit_ParseText'
Interface\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:4215: in function `ChatEdit_SendText'
Interface\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:4251: in function `ChatEdit_OnEnterPressed'
[string "*:OnEnterPressed"]:1: in function <[string "*:OnEnterPressed"]:1>
EDIT: I narrowed down what was causing it: Under the Modules Tab, if you set ChannelNames to 'Don't Load'
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Posted Jun 10, 2018In reply to tidus4eva:
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Posted Jun 5, 2018(former Chatter user, seems like a handful of us have been moving over lately)
I have two chat windows that are stacked vertically, I'm looking for a way for the General and Combat Logs tabs on the bottom one to fully hide when not moused over, currently, they dim (maybe to alpha 0.5) but are still visible so they mess with the bottom row of the chat frame above, making it hard to read the bottom line of text. I've checked through the settings and don't see this being configurable anywhere, is this something that could be added?
Also, could you add the option in the Chat Formatting tab in Channel Names to create/use a default set of colours for all of the channels? Currently it shows the colours set for the toon but doesn't give any sort of override ability. Somehow all my toons have ended up with a wide variety of colour schemes and since I'm using the same Prat profile for all of them it'd be nice to be able to override the Blizzard chat colours that have been set with a set of colours in Prat to fix them all up at once.
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Posted Jun 10, 2018In reply to ray_smith:
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Posted Jun 5, 2018I'm getting this error when I try to change the Chat Timestamp setting in the interface Game->Social tab, doesn't happen when Prat is disabled:
Couldn't find CVar named 'none'
[C]: ?
[C]: ?
[C]: in function `SetCVar'
FrameXML\InterfaceOptionsPanels.lua:1025: in function `SetValue'
FrameXML\InterfaceOptionsPanels.lua:1084: in function `func'
FrameXML\UIDropDownMenu.lua:791: in function `UIDropDownMenuButton_OnClick'
[string "*:OnClick"]:1: in function <[string "*:OnClick"]:1>
Locals:
(*temporary) = "none"
(*temporary) = "%H:%M "
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Posted Jun 5, 2018If this is the addon that's implemented some achievement "grats" functionality, then shame on you, developer. Most annoying feature ever.
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Posted Jun 5, 2018In reply to Forge_User_59180911:
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Posted Jun 8, 2018In reply to sylvanaar:
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Posted Jun 8, 2018In reply to AlexSUCF:
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Posted Jun 23, 2018In reply to sylvanaar:
I'll have to agree that the implementation of this feature was met with some... awkwardness on my side. Here's the key issues:
1) Users may assume the "new [grats] feature" was added by Blizzard, so
2) almost everyone is going to click it once (or more) to "find out what it does". Embarrassment ensues, because
3) the predefined "grats" messages are somewhat cringeworthy, and
4) it is not immediately clear to both the user and others that this is an addon-generated message, nor
5) are all the messages clearly congratulatory in nature, leading to
6) other players assuming the user is... mentally challenged or a bot/spammer of ambiguous/pointless messages, while
7) the user tries to figure out what just happened and where the silly messages came from, while
8) disabling the feature requires them to not only find out it was Prat who "did it", but also
9) where in the entirety of its menus it can be disabled
I mean, I didn't even know Prat HAD settings (because I was happy with the defaults, until this feature came along, so there was no need to change anything).
I'm also an addon developer, so I was able to figure out what was going on reasonably fast. Others, however, I've had to point towards the cause of the sudden "grats epidemy". I play on some of the bigger realms and people were literally asking in Trade chat what's up with the weird messages, repeatedly. It's almost a meme at this point.
On a final note, I'm unclear on the purpose of the feature in general. Why do I need it in an addon that is useful to me for changing the default chat frame's behaviour and extending it with practical features such as copy/paste and URL linking? This one doesn't quite seem to fit, IMHO.
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Posted Jun 26, 2018In reply to Cakechart:
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Posted Jun 27, 2018In reply to sylvanaar: