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.
2. Right-Click the tab (not chat text area) and choose settings.
3. In Gategories choose Chat.
4. Tick option "Whisper".
5. Click Okay and youre done.
With Sticky options : Say, Party, Raid, Battleground, Guild.
Good question rises if you have 1 general window and 3 tabs on it :
|General window| |Party tab| |Raid tab| |Guild Tab|
now when using "Classic style" you can move the editbox form tab to tab without losing sticky. But this is tiresome to switch the "sticky option"
Example :
1. You start WoW with going Guild Tab and "/guild Hi!"
2. Then you go General Window and press enter and change editbox sticky "/guild" to "/2"(trade).
3. You switch back to Guild Tab and press enter only to noticed it is not "/guild" sticky anymore but a "/2"(trade) sticky.
"IM Style" chat settings the sticky features "remember" per chat tab settings.
Example:
1. General Window stays as "/say" once set.
2. Party Tab stays "/party" once set (must have formed party to set).
and so on.
But on "IM style" you cant link things from different chat tabs since the editbox dissappears once you click different chat tab. There is always the possibility to change current chat tab sticky option.
Example again :
1. You are reading in Guild Tab and switch to General Window and notice intresting item link.
2. While chatbox open at Guild Tab (Guild|PlayerXsays: Check this item...) and pressing the General Window, editbox dissappears and so the text.
3. No biggie, on General Window you change sticky to "/guild" and type the (PlayerXsays: Check this item *item link*), but oh noes! now our General Window sticky is "/guild" instead of "/say" or "/channel". Gotta change that back...
This what i mean changing things back and fort. After time its bothersome task switching back and forth the sticky options.
Any solution to this problem or upcoming fix possibility ?
APART from this, the addon is awesome. (its when I do AoE dmg, not when other people do it ect)
eg /w j
l---------
l James l
l Jacob l
l---------
And to make it so Tab only scrolls down that list, not pull up a massive list in my own chat pane showing everyones name on the whole server with the letter 'J' in it.. ':/
If this was done, it would be the ultimate addon for me. ;3
2x Interface\FrameXML\FloatingChatFrame.lua:1281: attempt to perform arithmetic on a nil value:
Interface\FrameXML\FloatingChatFrame.lua:167: in function `FloatingChatFrame_Update':
Interface\FrameXML\FloatingChatFrame.lua:72: in function `FloatingChatFrame_OnEvent':
<string>:"*:OnEvent":2: in function <[string "*:OnEvent"]:1>
Locals:
id = 1
onUpdateEvent = 1
chatFrame = ChatFrame1 {
0 = <userdata>
flashTimer = 0
isInitialized = 1
mouseOutTime = 1.0210000798106
print = <function> @ Prat-3.0\services\print.lua:49:
tellTimer = 911399.912
resizeButton = ChatFrame1ResizeButton {}
buttonFrame = ChatFrame1ButtonFrame {}
AddMessage = <function> @ Ace3\AceHook-3.0\AceHook-3.0.lua:100:
SetPoint = <function> @ MaelosUI_Layout\MaelosUI_Layout.lua:40:
oldAlpha = 0
channelList =
clickAnywhereButton = ChatFrame1ClickAnywhereButton {}
isStaticDocked = true
mouseInTime = 0
editBox = ChatFrame1EditBox {}
buttonSide = "left"
name = "General"
dbg = <function> @ Prat-3.0\services\print.lua:52:
isDocked = 1
zoneChannelList =
defaultLanguage = "Orcish"
messageTypeList =
}
chatTab = ChatFrame1Tab {
fadeInfo =
glow = ChatFrame1TabGlow {}
middleTexture = ChatFrame1TabMiddle {}
0 = <userdata>
rightSelectedTexture = ChatFrame1TabSelectedRight {}
leftSelectedTexture = ChatFrame1TabSelectedLeft {}
leftTexture = ChatFrame1TabLeft {}
textWidth = 41.339714050293
alerting = false
leftHighlightTexture = ChatFrame1TabHighlightLeft {}
middleSelectedTexture = ChatFrame1TabSelectedMiddle {}
rightTexture = ChatFrame1TabRight {}
noMouseAlpha = 0
rightHighlightTexture = ChatFrame1TabHighlightRight {}
middleHighlightTexture = ChatFrame1TabHighlightMiddle {}
mouseOverAlpha = 1
}
name = "General"
fontSize = 13
r = 0
g = 0
b = 0
a = 0
shown = 1
locked = nil
docked = 1
uninteractable = nil
"change the chat frame/chat box appearance"
But I can find no way to actually do this outside of removing the default buttons. I can still change the background color and opacity, but that is the same functionality as the default frames. How can I changed the border and background textures for the chat frames using Prat? Is this even possible? I love feature in Chatter and it's one of the reasons I switched. I want to switch back to Prat but don't want to have to use KGPanels to make it match the rest of my UI.
Thanks.
I noticed that when I attach the EditBox to the top, it remains on the bottom for RealID Conversation tabs. Is there a way to put it on the top for those?
Thanks.