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.
8.2 errors
8x PratCCFrameScroll: Couldn't find relative frame: PratCCFrameButton
In reply to HD_MOVIE_SOURCE:
Posted a hopefully functional cludge-of-a-fix below. :-)
MAJOR caveats emptor (caveat emptors?) here, I transplanted code corpses at the frame level and that's foreign territory for me, but at least a brief initial test in-game seems to be behaving as it did pre-8.2 so posting. Will update if my UI implodes on me or I discover any pratfalls (harhar). If anyone else replies with such I'll *try* to give it a look but I make zero promises.
Anyhow, updated file is here, the file you want to replace is Prat-3.0\frames\pratcc.xml . You can either download the file and replace it or open and copy-paste the contents off Dropbox. Literally all I did was find the frame Prat was trying to inherit in the pre-8.2 code and spliced it into Prat's code so it could inherit from what it expected to. (The frame in question seems to have gotten outright removed from the game files, so couldn't try to just update it.)
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PS - If you're technically inclined, here's the link to the code diff I used to figure out WTF to do.
In reply to Veyska:
Thanks, I was literally in the process of downloading the 8.2 FrameXML code to figure out what changed (as this is NOT documented in Blizzard's changes). I applied a similar fix to Decursive as well. Now off to figure out what's happening with Spy (it's blowing up on WorldMapFrame:Show() for some reason)
In reply to Veyska:
Thank you for this. I also Posted your name in my own comment so hopefully they scroll in the comments section to find your file. It worked great. Ty for taking the time to not only do this but to share it with all of us
In reply to Veyska:
What did this fix? Do I still need to apply it? I don't remember fixing it - so is it still broken?
In reply to sylvanaar:
Pretty sure Blizz removed some frame or another Prat was trying to inherit, I cludged it back in and then Blizz put it back in themselves far's I can tell so no it's not broken anymore.
2 Error along with blank box appear in middle of screen, even tho you can "ESC" to make it go away.
13x PratCCFrameScroll: Couldn't find relative frame: PratCCFrameButton
13x Couldn't find inherited node: DialogBoxFrame
In reply to sgkdnay:
Posted a hopefully functional cludge-of-a-fix just above your comment. :-)
In reply to Veyska:
Might wanna change 2 instances of word in pratcc.xml
DialogBoxFrame to DialogBoxFrameA then the error stopped. For some reason something, somewhere is conflicting with DialogBoxFrame, once I put an "A" in it, no error whatsoever and everything functioned as it should
In reply to sgkdnay:
Blizz actually hotfixed what was causing the problem with Prat and a few other addons, I'm back to running "stock" Prat now with no issues. I'm guessing Blizzard just added back the snippet of code they'd removed that Prat was trying to inherit so makes sense there might be a conflict as a result.
Not sure if the author is still working on this addon, but when I logged into the new 8.2 patch today, this addon disabled my keyboard. I disabled all my addons and then added them back to the game one by one so I am pretty sure this is the addon causing the issue.
In reply to hjh3rd:
I've found hitting escape brings it back. I'm down to 2 addons causing issues (decursive and prat) and both are having the same issue (some change in ScrollFrame behavior).
In reply to hjh3rd:
Posted a hopefully functional cludge-of-a-fix just above your comment. :-)
When I'm trying to copy text that contains Chinese characters, it's absolutely empty. As long as Chinese characters appeared in my chatbox, I can't copy anything. I want to copy Chinese characters. Any solution?
I try to remove a frame of messages in clouds. To display only text. This function only works outside of the raid, the raid all the same, the message in the frame. Help please!
Hello,
This addon has been abandonned ?
There's problem with method dungeon tool, not working for 8.2 ptr and more minor problems ...
Last update was 6 months ago and i saw no answer form creator or contributor :/
I don't know why but, on the PTR, my character movement keys (<, >, space bar, etc.) no longer function when Prat is running. Tried disabling each add-on separately and the issue only happens when Prat is active. I thought you should know.
Please fix the problem with method dungeon tools. most link shared by group mates arent working for import. Addon is useless with this bug for m+ raiders
A global profile would be so nice! Perhaps something like sexymaps?
Profiles have never really worked with this mod.