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.
Same issue as most of these other recent comments. I cannot see whispers at all, incoming or outgoing.
Im having the same problem as the previous comments, I cannot see whispers. This problem just started in the last day or so.
When whispering:
http://www.wowace.com/addons/prat-3-0/files/9679-r1001/ Download the new Prat fix problem//
Im having the same problem as the previous comments, I cannot see whispers. This problem just started in the last day or so.
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Im having the same problem as the previous two comments, I cannot see whispers. This problem just started in the last day or so.
Some thing in this addon is preventing me from getting whispers but not the one's from battlebet.net the old Norm ones
i love this addon sooo much been using it for many many years, when i updated yesterday everything seemed fine, and then all of a sudden i can't see any text when i whisper anyone that's not on my friends list, i tried reloading, and still nothing. I turned prat off and it's working fine now, is this a known issue or is this just me?
For those that don't want to edit files to fix the chatsections.lua:354 and PlayerNames.lua:1357 errors you can get the latest Alpha that fixes these errors here:
http://www.wowace.com/addons/prat-3-0/files/9679-r1001/
Can't whisper and i tried getting a later version
Message: Interface\AddOns\Prat-3.0\services\chatsections.lua:354: attempt to call field 'BNet_GetPresenceID' (a nil value)
Time: 03/23/16 19:17:34
Count: 1
Stack: [C]: in function `BNet_GetPresenceID'
Interface\AddOns\Prat-3.0\services\chatsections.lua:354: in function `SplitChatMessage'
Interface\AddOns\Prat-3.0\addon\addon.lua:600: in function <Interface\AddOns\Prat-3.0\addon\addon.lua:575>
(tail call): ?
Interface\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:2653: in function `ChatFrame_OnEvent'
[string "*:OnEvent"]:1: in function <[string "*:OnEvent"]:1>
Locals:
^
Just couldn't be bothered to read my post right before you posted this? The link I posted takes you to a ticket with instructions on how to fix both the chatsections.lua:354 and PlayerNames.lua:1357 errors! You just have to take a couple of minutes to edit one line in each file!
Multiple posts and multiple tickets about the same errors! Is it any wonder addon authors get annoyed at users?
Change the comment on Line 355
--s.presenceID = _G.BNet_GetPresenceID(arg2)
s.presenceID = presenceID and _G.BNIsSelf(presenceID)
Just move the "--" from line 355 to line 354
I have an idea, release a new version fixing developer mistakes?
To fix the latest errors, until the author(s) release a new version that fixes things, simply READ this ticket for instructions on what changes to make:
If your text editor doesn't show line numbers you might want to use Notepad++ instead.
Any and all thanks for the fixes should go to "transitbus", I'm just pointing others to them!
As for the error about "\AddOns\Prat-3.0\modules\ChannelSticky.lua line 316:
attempt to call method 'ResgisterSmartGroup' (a nil value)" posted earlier, I suspect there's a typo on line 316:
self:ResgisterSmartGroup(false)
I think that should read:
self:RegisterSmartGroup(false)
Not sure that will fix the error though, but hopefully the author will see this and at least fix the typo to prevent any future potential problems!
Looks like their latest build on their project site might be the fix we're looking for.
Thank you devs for fixing this!
Needs a update, cant send regular whispers
Issue with battlenet since today nil value