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 Huskerd00dle:
Its complicated. and there is an open issue about it on GitHub
https://github.com/sylvanaar/prat-3-0/issues/7
Please where can I change color for Shaman ? like file/line, I don't mind to change it manualy every new version
In reply to Forge_User_64554867:
There are multiple answers. Prat does support this standard for custom class colors: https://github.com/phanx-wow/ClassColors/wiki
I suggest you start there.
In reply to Forge_User_64554867:
in services/classcolor.lua:21
In reply to Forge_User_64554867:
Folded into latest version
1x Prat-3.0-3.2.30\modules\Editbox.lua:690: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)
Prat-3.0-3.2.30\modules\Editbox.lua:690: in function `?'
...nts\libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0-7.lua:119: in function <...nts\libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:119>
[C]: ?
...nts\libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0-7.lua:29: in function <...nts\libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:25>
...nts\libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0-7.lua:64: in function `Fire'
Prat-3.0-3.2.30\addon\addon.lua:401: in function <Prat-3.0\addon\addon.lua:391>
(tail call): ?
[C]: in function `FCF_SetTemporaryWindowType'
FrameXML\FloatingChatFrame.lua:778: in function `FCF_OpenTemporaryWindow'
FrameXML\FloatingChatFrame.lua:2554: in function <FrameXML\FloatingChatFrame.lua:2543>
Happened when someone whispered me....
In reply to TheWebDeveloper:
If you want to fix this bug:
1. open file: prat-3.0 > modules > editbox.lua
2. delete lines 690 to 692 and past in:
In reply to TheWebDeveloper:
Thanks!
I am using the latest version of Prat on classic. Everything seems to work fine except the edit box. The next is larger than the rest of the text and the font appears to be in the standard WoW font. https://i.imgur.com/CikioVw.jpg
In reply to GrilledCheez57:
Will you make a ticket on the new GitHub tracker? Just follow the link to the source.
In reply to GrilledCheez57:
" Who Is?" isn't working for me at least with latest release.
Since a couple of months the link support for Method Dungeon Tools is screwed with Prat. You can't click route links in chat.
Some amazing guy (unfortunately I don't know anymore if it was here in the comments or somewhere else) wrote a workaround for this.
The problem can be fixed via "patterns.lua" (line 147 to 171):
Please implement this finally, since I/we have to fix this manually every update.
Thanks.
In reply to Forge_User_91176510:
Prat is on GitHub now. Why not hop over there clone it, and submit a PR - we can discuss it there.
in WoW Classic Horde Shamans have pink color, not blue
In reply to Forge_User_64554867:
Make sure you download the Classic-specific addon on the right hand side. I made the same mistake.
In reply to TheNMX:
i did use Prat-3.0-3.2.28-classic when i wrote it , still pink . hope 3.2.30-classic will fix that
In reply to Forge_User_64554867:
Pink is the actual color from back in the day! I know I had to double-check it myself. This is authentic!
In reply to Forge_User_64554867:
still pink :( i did even move WTF folder to have clean setting , still pink
In reply to Forge_User_64554867:
Pink is the correct color for classic wow!!! Now if you are wanting to change that as an enhancement - hop over to the new GitHub issue tracker and open an issue!
Hi guys - thanks for the patience. The issue was with a workaround for a bug in the old Curse packager. I have removed the workaround, and the build is currently underway 3.7.28, it should be available very soon.
Should be good now guys - please update to latest and report any issues.