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.
Is it possible to have the Chat Tabs always visible (not fading)?
Thank you for your help
Hi There,
Is there any way to keep the channel type within the channel tab selected?
What i mean by this is if i select the general tab it will automatically select guild chat, or if I select officer it will automatically select officer or if I'm in a raid/party it will automatically select whichever i am in in the Instance tab etc.
I though it may have been in the channel sticky section but this doesn't seem to do anything for me.
i currently am using another addon for this called ChatTabChannels which does the above but it would be nice if i could do this within Prat so i can get rid of ChatTabChannels addon.
Any help greatly appreciated.
I keep having this issue where Prat will taint the Bonus Roll frame after doing a /reload. For example if you forgot to buy coins after killing a boss, then go to Dalaran to get the coin and doing /reload to trigger the frame. I have to disable the addon each time. Any chance you could look into this?
Some moron in my guild keeps calling his characters common english words, which results in the chat being littered with stupid colors. Any way to make a blacklist of certain names for name-coloring, or make it case-sensetive?
Thanks for the update! The errors were making WoW unplayable and having to run the game without Prat made keeping up with whispers a nightmare, really glad it's back.
https://mods.curse.com/addons/wow/myfonts is overwriting font shadow, making Prat not remembering font shadow setting.
Welcome back king Sylvanaar!
Prat is back !!!! All hail the king !!!!
Thanks for the update
OMG, Welcome back Sylvanaar!
I'm excited to see this updated. I was getting an insane amount of errors and warnings while using Prat, but stuck through it because this is such an Awesome addon.
Anyways, Welcome back, thanks for updating it and keep it up! :)
Hey, we have a rather large guild and our gm regularly kicks out a bunch of inactive players all at once, but when he does this, if Prat is enabled, it seems to deadlock the entire game. Is there anyway this can be fixed?
The problem is that these kick messages are all sent out at once. Prat has to search each and every text message for names to color, it adds player levels, timestamps etc.
If you do a counter from 1 to 2000 and send it to a chat channel not affected by throttling, all people with Prat will experience serious lag, maybe even game crashes. If you disable Prat it doesn't matter.
So I suspect there is no solution for you. You could disable all the extra message enhancing functions, but why use Prat then?
Its kind of an edge case. I am trying to think of why this would be such an issue.
I dont know the message types that occur when that happens. I guess its CHAT_MESSAGE_SYSTEM.
If you go iinto Playernames.lua and remove the line:
hi, any chance to get an option for line spacing? a checkbox for "in between messages only" would be nice as well.
13354 - Incoming Whisper Function not Working
What steps will reproduce the problem?
-> 1. Just try sending a whisper.
-> 2. Have somebody try to whisper you
What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
-> Whispers from others do not show to the Receiver using Prat.
What version of the product are you using?
-> 3.6.8
Can you reproduce the problem when ONLY Prat is running?
-> Yes - When turned of Whisper function works as it should
Do you play on US or EU. What language do you use?
-> EU with German Language.
Do you have an error log of what happened?
-> No!
Hopefully you can fix this bug - Screenshot:
http://www.bilder-upload.eu/upload/694457-1459965004.jpg
I'm getting performance issues, slowly over time the game starts running worse and worse when prat is enabled
Okay, I have this strange and annoying "lag" of 1 - 1.5 seconds when I'm talking to someone on BNet. It never happens on Trade, Guild, Raid, Party, even character whispers, only BNet. Any ideas how one might fix that?
Thanks in advance,
Theredin @Sylvanas-EU
Still can't click on items and nicks...
EDIT: Well, i really could not click links, until I checked "interactive mode" ))
Yes. You have to do that. That is part of the base game client. People often overlook it.
The whisper thing is good again, but I still can't click on links, people or items in chat.
I'll try it out. Are you on a combined server?