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.
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lucifercatnip Owner
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humfras Author
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MrFIXlT Author
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MysticalOS Author
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Posted Sep 1, 2012This is happening to me as well
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Posted Sep 1, 2012fix from
user_594507 helped with this as well actually
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Posted Aug 31, 2012I seem to get a 1 second lag spike everytime I chat to someone and hit 'enter' to send the message =/ Anyway to fix this?
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Posted Aug 31, 2012I have the same problam seems to happen through Real ID and Battletag people aswell.
Annoying since im a GM i give out my battletag alot so members can contact me =(
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Posted Aug 31, 2012Right click the tab of the chat window and click on "Make Interactive"
Hope this helps.
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Posted Aug 31, 2012When anything is linked in game, I can't click on it. I can't click on anyone's name in chat to whisper them either.
I have the same....HELP))
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Posted Aug 31, 2012I cant find anymore the option to have a sound alert when my nickname is being typed... Did you remove it or im blind?
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Posted Aug 31, 2012Thanks! This works and stops the errors when receiving messages from RealID friends. It is in the Prat-3.0\modules\PlayerNames.lua file. Use notepad++ or some other text editor with line counts to change it.
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Posted Aug 30, 2012The BNGetFriendInfo API call has changed to cater for the BattleTag real ID system.
Copy and paste, or edit the following lines in the \Prat-3.0\modules\PlayerNames.lua file:
Old code from line 1347-1353:
local _, givenName, surname, toon, id = BNGetFriendInfo(i)
if id then
if BNTokenCombineGivenAndSurname(givenName .. surname) == message.PLAYER then
local _, toonName, client, realmName, _, faction, race, class, _, zoneName, level, gameText,
broadcastText, broadcastTime = BNGetToonInfo(id)
....
New code:
local presenceID, presenceName, battleTag, isBattleTagPresence = BNGetFriendInfo(i)
if presenceID then
if BNTokenFindName(presenceName) == message.PLAYER then
local _, toonName, client, realmName, _, faction, race, class, _, zoneName, level, gameText,
broadcastText, broadcastTime = BNGetToonInfo(presenceID)
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[Edit: Forgot to add the filename where the changes need to be done. Thanks zaleon!]
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Posted Aug 30, 2012When anything is linked in game, I can't click on it. I can't click on anyone's name in chat to whisper them either.
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Posted Aug 30, 2012In combination with ElvUI, I can't see anyones name when they link an achieve of recieve one. For example if someone in the guild links an achieve, it turns out like this: [G]: blabla - I don't see their name or the achieve they linked, only the text.
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Posted Aug 30, 2012do Sarahtje solution work?
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Posted Aug 30, 2012Getting the RealID error everyone else has been getting, which I know you'll fix when you get the chance, no worries.
However, for about a month or 2, I've also been having another issue where if someone links 2+ items in a single message, I can't see who sent it, only what channel it's for. If they linked 2 items then the entire line is blank except for [2] or [G], while if they link 3, I can see the 3rd item and anything they typed after that, but not the first 2 or their name.
EDIT: forgot to mention, I'm not sure how relevant these are but the addons I'm using with Prat are:
TukUI
Grid
Recount
Omen
AtlasLoot
Postal
Overachiever (deactivated until it's updated for 5.0)
Deadly Boss Mods
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Posted Aug 30, 2012Try the solution I posted below, it should fix this error.
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Posted Aug 30, 2012Get this error for real ID whisper -
1x Prat-3.0-3.5\modules\PlayerNames.lua:1350: attempt to call global "BNTokenCombineGivenAndSurname" (a nil value)
Prat-3.0-3.5\modules\PlayerNames.lua:1350: in function "FormatPlayer"
Prat-3.0-3.5\modules\PlayerNames.lua:1467: in function "?"
Libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0-6.lua:147: in function <Libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:147>
<string>:"safecall Dispatcher[4]":4: in function <string>:"safecall Dispatcher[4]":4
<in C code>
<string>:"safecall Dispatcher[4]":13: in function "?"
Libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0-6.lua:92: in function "Fire"
Prat-3.0-3.5\addon\addon.lua:632: in function <Prat-3.0\addon\addon.lua:573>
(tail call): ?
FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:2741: in function "ChatFrame_OnEvent"
<string>:"*:OnEvent":1: in function <string>:"*:OnEvent":1
<in C code>
FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:4068: in function "ChatEdit_SendText"
FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:4091: in function "ChatEdit_OnEnterPressed"
<string>:"*:OnEnterPressed":1: in function <string>:"*:OnEnterPressed":1
Locals:
nil
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Posted Aug 29, 2012Open Prat-3.0\modules\PlayerNames.lua
Change line 1347 from:
local _, givenName, surname, toon, id = BNGetFriendInfo(i)
to:
local id, givenName, surname, toon = BNGetFriendInfo(i)
Change line 1350 from:
if BNTokenCombineGivenAndSurname(givenName .. surname) == message.PLAYER then
to:
if BNTokenFindName(givenName .. (surname or "")) == message.PLAYER then
Fixed.
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Posted Aug 30, 2012I will verify this solution worked for me, very quick and easy fix thank you a ton.
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Posted Aug 31, 2012This worked. Thanks!
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Posted Sep 5, 2012Thank you very much for this fix!
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Posted Aug 31, 2012Same thing here.