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 am making use of this and love it. The only HUGE problem I find is that you can't change the padding of the chat bubble. I run wow across 3 monitors and the problem is that the chat bubbles are HUGE because of this. So I started using this addon in the hopes that it fixed this problem. What the addon now does, it reduces the font size of the chat bubble but the padding is still enormous. It would be nice if you could add a feature to control the padding. :) If you like, I can mail you a snapshot.
also - i want to have the blizz social icon move same place (to the right)
i see only in guild chat but not in /4 /2
i want to see level of ALL people in the channels, like class color.
(or see only not 85 lvl)
how to do it?
The Editbox positioning being at the bottom irrespective of the setting, and the scrolling buttons on the side are both appearing when one of those whisper tabs have the focus, but not when static chat frames do.
Every time i try to whisper someone in my party, I'm met with a "that player isn't currently playing" message in the chat box or w/e it is.
I think what's happening is that somehow it's only recognizing players from my realm and won't allow me to whisper players from other realms.
I'm here to ask some help about a problem i encountered when trying to install an "all-in-one" interface ( i uninstalled it very quick tho ) : here's my issue.
I can't see rolls on chat frame anymore, i just see the result (who won the roll), for exemple : Player won [object] - 38 (need)
I can't see who picked up "greed" or "need". Is there a Prat filter that have been enabled in the "all-in-one" interface that i need to disable to see rolls again ?
Sorry for my poor english and thanks for any help
There is one (although I think pretty marginal) issue, if you could solve it it would be so awesome! I am Hungarian, and our weird language uses a lot of special characters. Prat does not show some of them (more precisely, it puts some even weirder characters istead of it). These are: ö ő ü ű ú. I dont know if this is possible to fix, but I would really appreciate it! Thanks in advance.
Other than that, I don't know why you are having trouble.
Any idea how to solve this?
Thanks
Error#132 (0x85100084) Fatal Exception
Exception: 0xC0000005 (ACCESS_VIOLATION) at 001B:00511C26
The instruction at "0x00511C26" referenced memory at "0x000000CC". The memory could not be "read".
It happens when prat is the only addon I have enabled, but it only happens when I have more than 1 custom chat frame. When it's just general, combat log + 1 other, it doesn't do it.