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.
In reply to sylvanaar:
Filenames for the new downloads show 3.2.28 instead of the 3.7.28 that you refer to. Guessing that's just a typo?
In reply to RealGrizzlyUK:
Seems not, as all updates since have had the 3.2 prefix.
In reply to Huskerd00dle:
It would seem so, just seemed a little strange and confusing that the author refers to version 3.7.28 being "available very soon" but instead we got version 3.2.28 instead. Up until then previous versions had been using the 3.7.XX version numbering, but obviously it's the author's choice as to what version numbers get used. Just hope nobody gets confused with the 3.2.XX versions from way back in 2010!
In reply to sylvanaar:
Latest classic doesn't work at all, can't /prat to open menu, no error messages, just doesn't seem to work.
Fix is building in the alpha channel now, if all goes well it will be released within the next few minutes
Hi guys - this is all part of a new build system, and the only way to test is to build it!. Please be patient as I try to figure out what is going on.
In reply to sylvanaar:
Thank you!
In reply to sylvanaar:
Thank you!
In reply to sylvanaar:
Thank you!
wow; the version you just released for Classic (3.26 Classic) broke things so badly; module no longer loads anything and throws up 73 errors. There were only 2 before lol
Specifically
Message: Interface\AddOns\Prat-3.0\modules\PlayerNames.lua:1247: attempt to call global 'GetNumWhoResults' (a nil value)
Time: Wed Aug 28 11:00:56 2019
Count: 2
Stack: Interface\AddOns\Prat-3.0\modules\PlayerNames.lua:1247: attempt to call global 'GetNumWhoResults' (a nil value)
Interface\AddOns\Prat-3.0\modules\PlayerNames.lua:1247: in function `?'
...cle\Libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:147: in function <...cle\Libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:147>
[string "safecall Dispatcher[18]"]:4: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[18]"]:4>
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[18]"]:13: in function `?'
...cle\Libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:92: in function `Fire'
...ce\AddOns\Dominos\libs\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0.lua:120: in function <...ce\AddOns\Dominos\libs\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0.lua:119>
Locals: <none>
Echoing this. 3.26 for WoW retail is completely hosed, forced to revert.
Love the addon, but it becomes completely unusable if you've got any number of people with weakauras that output to chat. For example on the Sivara fight in Eternal Palace, people have weakauras that say either the triangle or the square depending on their infusion, the game freezes up for a few second seach time it happens. It's even more noticeable on the Azshara fight, people have a weakaura that yells something to do with their decrees (i.e move, don't move, soak, group, etc), and the game will drop to lower than 1 frame every 5 seconds if you've got a group above 20 people. Would love to use it but it's just not possible until something's done about that issue.
In reply to Rominiust:
I am not really in a position to test unless someone wants to bring me along. I have kinda sat out this expac
In reply to Rominiust:
I don't have the ilvl for LFR sorry, I can't test it there. If you want to arrange a time I will group with you and we can fix it.
I finally got to play classic. Made some fixes so the addon starts up without errors on classic.
In reply to sylvanaar:
I don't see a seperate version for Classic so is the current Retail version fully compatible with Classic? Just need to change the .toc version number or .... ?
In reply to RealGrizzlyUK:
Just tell the game to ignore the TOC number when it launches.
In reply to sylvanaar:
Thanks for the reply, good to know that one version of Prat does indeed work for both Retail and Classic.
In reply to sylvanaar:
Would you be willing to update the compatible versions, since it doesn't show up in the Twitch client otherwise? Thanks!