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)
- Machine learning 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.
1. Anyway to fade the Drag Arrows? You know, the grey things at the bottom right of each chat box? I would ask the same of the Tabs, but I grabbed the "ChatTab" addon, and that did it for me.
2. PARAGRAPH and TABS in Display Settings are greyed out. Is this just me?
ANYWAY, the editbox darkening is fixed in the latest alpha. :)
Personally, I believe this is due to Prat being updated for 3.3.5 (which is live on US servers), whereas I play on EU servers where 3.3.3 is still the live version, and will be for at least half a week more.
I've rolled back to Prat 3.0 3.3.11 until the EU system is patched, and it works like a charm still. For anyone experiencing similar issues, and who are playing on EU servers, try the rollback and see if it helps before complaining on an addon that (I'm sure) works great for the latest patch. ;)
Also, you can only replace the editbox to top, floting or botem and i do not see the font changing option anymore...
However, i'm back to the Prat 3.0.3.3.12 (thats working fine for me, even on a EU Realm)
Date: 2010-06-25 08:20:22
ID: 1
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\Prat-3.0\modules\Editbox.lua line 473:
attempt to index global 'ChatFrame1EditBox' (a nil value)
Debug:
Prat-3.0\addon\modules.lua:332: LoadModules()
Prat-3.0\addon\addon.lua:235:
Prat-3.0\addon\addon.lua:192
(tail call): ?
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:9:
[string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:5
(tail call): ?
...s\AckisRecipeList\libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:510: InitializeAddon()
...s\AckisRecipeList\libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:622:
...s\AckisRecipeList\libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:615
I hope it's not the other addon thats called in the error.
Also i hope that i have informed you on the right way
Regards
Date: 2010-06-25 08:20:34
ID: 4
Error occured in: Global
Count: 5
Message: ..\AddOns\Prat-3.0\modules\Buttons.lua line 375:
attempt to index local 'upButton' (a nil value)
Debug:
(tail call): ?
Prat-3.0\modules\Buttons.lua:375: HideButtons()
Prat-3.0\modules\Buttons.lua:336: OnModuleEnable()
Prat-3.0\addon\modules.lua:189:
Prat-3.0\addon\modules.lua:181
(tail call): ?
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:9:
[string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:5
(tail call): ?
...s\AckisRecipeList\libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:539: EnableAddon()
...s\AckisRecipeList\libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:551: EnableAddon()
...s\AckisRecipeList\libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:629:
...s\AckisRecipeList\libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:615
[C]: LoadAddOn()
..\FrameXML\UIParent.lua:235: UIParentLoadAddOn()
..\FrameXML\UIParent.lua:258: CombatLog_LoadUI()
..\FrameXML\UIParent.lua:482:
..\FrameXML\UIParent.lua:454
Agian, before the update i dis not see anny of thous errors so.,, i still hope it's not the other addon's thats calles in this error
regards
Before update, whenever I pressed Enter, the "text box" would be on top of the chatframe, now its on the bottom.
I've tried to find an option to fix it, but I can't find it. Is it the option; "Editbox"?
Its greyed out for me.
Before I upgraded I had no issues with errors and I've lost some functionality which I simply can't enable again.
I've reverted back to the last working Prat for me.
Thx for your help anyways.