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.
I'm just used to that and miss it.
I use two separate windows for different chats. One window on my right has all my guild/general/trade/nonsense chats (this is a modified window that I added). The one on my left has my tells/party chat/important stuff (this is the original general chat window from Blizz UI).
If a URL gets posted in my nonsense window (right side), I can click the link and have a pop-up window where I can copy the address. If a URL gets posted in my important window(left side), clicking the link does absolutely nothing.
I looked through the prat settings, and I don't see anything specific for turning on those settings in each window.
Is there something I'm just missing?
But for whatever reason, there are some glitches that are keep biting me. Ok, how come, when I try a 'à' I get a '´r' instead? Also, I can't invite people into groups with any fun stuff over the first letter, like 'àiden' or 'ômg'. Anybody else having this problem? I'm kinda the leader of the darn pack, and every now and then we got jokers with unfunny names. That's when I have to promote Assistants to invite that bunch. It's a little unnerving.
I'm using Prat, Whim, and Fontain. I know it's not Whim, coz there's like zip effect wether I got that thing on or not. Same goes for Fontain. Is there any other Add that could interferes?
Even if i did check the "Remember me" box, even if i tried to find a solution via .lua, NOTHING...! Does any1 know about that ?
Date: 2010-07-26 12:53:02
ID: 1
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ...Widgets\AceGUI-3.0-SharedMediaWidgets\FontWidget.lua line 177:
attempt to call method 'GetBaseFrame' (a nil value)
Debug:
(tail call): ?
...Widgets\AceGUI-3.0-SharedMediaWidgets\FontWidget.lua:177: ?()
...ddOns\PlateBuffs\libs\Ace3\AceGUI-3.0\AceGUI-3.0.lua:136:
...ddOns\PlateBuffs\libs\Ace3\AceGUI-3.0\AceGUI-3.0.lua:125
...ddOns\PlateBuffs\libs\Ace3\AceGUI-3.0\AceGUI-3.0.lua:174: Create()
...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua:1176:
...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua:1051
...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua:1538: FeedGroup()
...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua:1463:
...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua:1443
(tail call): ?
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[3]"]:9:
[string "safecall Dispatcher[3]"]:5
(tail call): ?
...ddOns\PlateBuffs\libs\Ace3\AceGUI-3.0\AceGUI-3.0.lua:314: Fire()
...ies\AceGUI-3.0\widgets\AceGUIContainer-TreeGroup.lua:473: SetSelected()
...ies\AceGUI-3.0\widgets\AceGUIContainer-TreeGroup.lua:192:
...ies\AceGUI-3.0\widgets\AceGUIContainer-TreeGroup.lua:188
Thanks
now try /hi
More detailed: Minimize/maximize in the sense of any windows frame. What i want to have is two eaysily accesible chat sizes: One big chat window to search groups etc. and one smaller one for the other time.