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.
When I send or receive a Real ID whisper the game hangs for a brief moment; this has a very negative performance effect on the game!
When ever a Real ID whisper's me i get this
Message: Interface\AddOns\Prat-3.0\modules\PlayerNames.lua:1350: attempt to call global 'BNTokenCombineGivenAndSurname' (a nil value)
Time: 08/29/12 21:09:07
Count: 4
Stack: Interface\AddOns\Prat-3.0\modules\PlayerNames.lua:1350: in function `FormatPlayer'
Interface\AddOns\Prat-3.0\modules\PlayerNames.lua:1467: in function `?'
...que\Libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:147: in function <...que\Libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:147>
[string "safecall Dispatcher[4]"]:4: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[4]"]:4>
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[4]"]:13: in function `?'
...que\Libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:92: in function `Fire'
Interface\AddOns\Prat-3.0\addon\addon.lua:632: in function <Interface\AddOns\Prat-3.0\addon\addon.lua:573>
(tail call): ?
Interface\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:2741: in function `ChatFrame_OnEvent'
[string "*:OnEvent"]:1: in function <[string "*:OnEvent"]:1>
Locals: <none>
Message: Interface\AddOns\Prat-3.0\modules\PlayerNames.lua:1350: attempt to call global 'BNTokenCombineGivenAndSurname' (a nil value)
Time: 08/29/12 11:33:43
Count: 2
Stack: Interface\AddOns\Auctionator\AtrErrorInspector.lua:101: in function <Interface\AddOns\Auctionator\AtrErrorInspector.lua:50>
(tail call): ?
Interface\AddOns\Prat-3.0\modules\PlayerNames.lua:1350: in function `FormatPlayer'
Interface\AddOns\Prat-3.0\modules\PlayerNames.lua:1467: in function `?'
...der\Libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:147: in function <...der\Libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:147>
[string "safecall Dispatcher[4]"]:4: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[4]"]:4>
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[4]"]:13: in function `?'
...der\Libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:92: in function `Fire'
Interface\AddOns\Prat-3.0\addon\addon.lua:632: in function <Interface\AddOns\Prat-3.0\addon\addon.lua:573>
(tail call): ?
Interface\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:2741: in function <Interface\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:2734>
(tail call): ?
(tail call): ?
[string "*:OnEvent"]:1: in function <[string "*:OnEvent"]:1>
Locals: <none>
I have a problem with the class colours showing for Real ID whispers. The colours work for regular whispers, and even the random setting gives different colours, but for Real ID it just shows everyone in blue. Is there anything I can do about this? My settings are the same as before the patch, and it worked fine then.
Hey how do i make the font bigger? its too tiny and giving me a headache.
As you've prob already seen and looking to fix, the BNTokenCombineGivenAndSurname battle.net API token does not seem to exist any more which is causing the errors when sending/recieving battle.net messages.
As a quick workaround to stop the errors (not a fix!) I amended line 1350 of ./modules/PlayerNames.lua
from:
if BNTokenCombineGivenAndSurname(givenName .. surname) == message.PLAYER then
to:
if 1 == 0 then --if BNTokenCombineGivenAndSurname(givenName .. surname) == message.PLAYER then
The PlayerName module is causing errors whenever you send or recieve a realID/Battletag whisper.
After updating to 3.5, everytime I whisper or get a whisper from a RealID friend, I get an error.
For some reason peoples names are no longer clickable. Before I could just click on peoples names and a convienent window of options would pop up, like whisper, ignore etc etc. I could also click on links and stuff but now nothing. Anyone else have this problem or have any idea how to fix it?
i think this made my chat window small why did it happen the text is very tiny
plz help
My favorite mod!
Unfortunately, it's causing huge FPS issues in the Mists beta.
Anyone else noticing this?
feature idea:
showing specified channels (like trade chat) in a differrent (smaller) font, but showing guild chat still in a big size.
Oke, i cant hold my self any more =)
What is high cpu load module? I never ever loaded and been using prat for some 4-5 years. Whats the function of it?
Thanks
/qurious bastard!
I keep hearing ping sounds when i am in combat for when something procs and when it fades, is there a way to disable tha?
Looked through the options and i cannot seem to find something for it.
Hi nice addon and great job.
Is there a way to add an alt+clic invite with battle.net whsip and conversation ?
Scrolling module doesnt start when addon loads
Hey, I just started trying out the addon, and it's great, but I have a question... is there a way to enable URL hyperlinking, so instead of having to copy the URL, I could just click or alt click it and it would open a new tab in my browser? Thanks in advance for any help.
No addon can do that. Blizzard prevents addons from doing anything outside of the game for the safety of the user. It would be such a shame if someone clicked a link in chat then they're loaded with 50 billion keyloggers.
I have a simple question, where is the filter button to stop the background color of the chat box to fade away. i want to it to stay full black background. please help.
Hey I submited a ticket in the game..
when a GM contacted me I never saw the message. popping.
am just woundering if Prat disables this in the settings or something..
ors its another addon (bartender probs)
hope some one can help me?
but very good add on