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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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Maurellie
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Posted Sep 13, 2018
In reply to Forge_User_42805121:

Any updates on how to fix this? its happening for me as well.

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#4624 Posted Sep 13, 2018

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Hi Maurellie, no updates afaik.

If that might help Sylvanaar, sometimes I get this LUA error when the bug happens. Seems relevant so...

   ..\FrameXML\ChatConfigFrame.lua:1461: GetMessageTypeColor()
   Prat-3.0\modules\Editbox.lua:815:
      Prat-3.0\modules\Editbox.lua:804
   (tail call): ?
   ..\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:3994: ChatEdit_ResetChatType()
   ..\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:3975: ChatEdit_OnShow()
   [string "*:OnShow"]:1:
      [string "*:OnShow"]:1
   [C]: Show()
   ..\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:4033:
      ..\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:4021
   [C]: ChatEdit_ActivateChat()
   ..\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:3664: ChatFrame_OpenChat()
   ..\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:3738: ChatFrame_SendTell()
   ..\FrameXML\LFGList.lua:2878: func()
   ..\FrameXML\UIDropDownMenu.lua:935: UIDropDownMenuButton_OnClick()
   [string "*:OnClick"]:1:
      [string "*:OnClick"]:1

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Posted Aug 27, 2018
Would it be possible to add a module to reverse the direction that chat messages flow? i.e., make it so that new messages show at the top of the frame, and are pushed downwards as new messages are added? I found an old forum post that described a way to do it, but I couldn't get it to work. https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/4422362377  Maybe you'll know more what's going on with it.

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Posted Aug 28, 2018
In reply to Yutaka:

I had done this before, and due to the low number of users of this feature, it got pruned. I will think about adding it again. You should make a ticket, and join my channel to evangelize

https://www.worldofwarcraft.com/invite/owyoMkgu7b?region=US&faction=Horde

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Posted Aug 28, 2018
In reply to sylvanaar:

That's fair. Honestly, I'm not even sure if I'd really like it, because we're all so used to chat programs that dump the newest message at the bottom. My motivation for asking was that I'm auditing my UI. My chat frames have been at the top of the screen for a long time, leaving more room for buttons and unitframes at the bottom, which I really like. But that means that if one person says something in guild chat, it shows up at the bottom of the chat frame on the top of the screen, so like, a quarter of the screen's height from the top. I thought it would be nice to reverse the flow of text so that it feels like there's more free space in the center of the screen more of the time. But like I said, even if you were to put it back in, then I'd just have to see if I can really deal with that change of the natural way of things, and if I can't, I'd just put it back to normal. So if that's a lot of pain / annoyance for you, then don't worry about it. :) Prat's really great -- thanks for providing it!

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Posted Aug 26, 2018
A few two quick questions. Is it possible to disable Prat from coloring your characters name / anything in angled brackets? I have the "color names everywhere" option unchecked, but it still colors those two things green.

As for my second question, is it possible to have prat effect my whisper tabs? None of the changes I make to prat seem to have any effect on them.

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Posted Aug 28, 2018
In reply to Hitaku:

The highlight module colors your name green, and also the angle brackets - you can just set it to "don't load"

What settings don't apply to whisper tabs?

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Posted Aug 29, 2018
In reply to sylvanaar:

Thank you for the response, the module is now disabled and it's working great for me.

As for whisper tabs, the font size doesn't seem to be applying. I can change the whisper tab font manually via blizzard, but only in even values. I have my Prat set to font size 15 which blizzard won't allow by default.

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Posted Aug 26, 2018
I can't get the chat window to resize, can anyone help please?

The little click-and-drag arrow in the bottom right of the chatbox doesn't do anything. Nor does changing the height/width values in prat settings-> frames.

I only want to make the widow narrower - it's bugging me how wide it is!

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Posted Aug 26, 2018
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Never mind, got it working.

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Posted Aug 25, 2018
very lag when in group.......

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Posted Aug 28, 2018
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If you have the "color names everywhere" option in playernames on, and you are in a very large guild, then you will get lag. Turn it off.

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Posted Aug 25, 2018
Hi, how can i change the sentences in the game (like "Say grats!") but only the french one.

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Posted Aug 28, 2018
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Help with the translations. Find the "Visit project page" link on this page, and go to the localizations section and supply some french translations

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Posted Aug 23, 2018
113x FrameXML\ChatConfigFrame.lua:1461: attempt to index local 'info' (a nil value)
FrameXML\ChatConfigFrame.lua:1461: in function `GetMessageTypeColor'
Prat-3.0-r1178 \modules\Editbox.lua:815: in function <Prat-3.0\modules\Editbox.lua:804>
(tail call): ?
FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:3994: in function `ChatEdit_ResetChatType'
FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:3975: in function `ChatEdit_OnShow'
[string "*:OnShow"]:1: in function <[string "*:OnShow"]:1>
[C]: in function `Show'
FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:4033: in function <FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:4021>
[C]: in function `ChatEdit_ActivateChat'
FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:3664: in function `ChatFrame_OpenChat'
[string "OPENCHAT"]:1: in function <[string "OPENCHAT"]:1>
Locals:
messageType = "CHANNELCommunity:117335872:1"
group = nil
type = "CHANNELCommunity:117335872:1"
info = nil
(*temporary) = "CHANNELCommunity:117335872:1"
(*temporary) = "CHANNELCommunity:117335872:1"
(*temporary) = "CHANNELC"
(*temporary) = "CHANNELCommunity:117335872:1"
(*temporary) = "attempt to index local 'info' (a nil value)"

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Posted Aug 28, 2018
In reply to bonkzi:

New one. Looks like it is community chat related. Any more info on this?

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Posted Aug 22, 2018
Still can't move the combat log to the bottom of the screen. It stops about a half inch from the bottom and will go no further. if you try to resize the window to force it lower, it simply starts making the window larger in the opposite direction (up).

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Posted Aug 22, 2018
just got this error when the guild got a achievment ( [Mythic: Underrot Guild Run] )

1x Prat-3.0-r1178 \modules\Achievements-Achievements.lua:881: Usage: GetPlayerInfoByGUID("playerGUID")
[C]: in function `GetPlayerInfoByGUID'
Prat-3.0-r1178 \modules\Achievements-Achievements.lua:881: in function <Prat-3.0\modules\Achievements.lua:870>
[C]: in function `gsub'
Prat-3.0-r1178 \services\patterns.lua:159: in function `MatchPatterns'
Prat-3.0-r1178 \addon\addon.lua:639: in function <Prat-3.0\addon\addon.lua:565>
(tail call): ?
FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:2898: in function `ChatFrame_OnEvent'
[string "*:OnEvent"]:1: in function <[string "*:OnEvent"]:1>

Locals:
InCombatSkipped

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Posted Aug 28, 2018
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New one - any more info?

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Posted Aug 31, 2018
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all the info i can give is that It seems to happen when the guild it self gets a achievement

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