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.
Whats the chatframe 1 text? because I cant type anything unless I open that and its annoying. How to i reset this whole addon?
Thanks for the update, I was wondering what was happening there. Hopefully you can find a fix soon, thanks for all you do!
Im currently using a keyboard macro for it, which isn't exactly optimal, but it works.
Have reported this as a bug aswell, hoping they fix it asap.
The arrow behavior appears to be a bug introduced by blizzard. I have not found a workaround. They require you to hold the ALT key when using up and down arrow.
The arrow scroll function needs to come back.
This new way is just clunky and stupid.
Taking away the option to scroll throught previous commands was intentional? I thought the addon was broken and was coming to complain. Someone else mentioned it was intentional. I liked that feature and was prob one of my fav features of this addon.
Please bring it back.
I came back to check on this and didn't see a reply, but I did see someone mention since then that they were using a slash command to manually link mains and alts? What is this? I tried the "/altnames link altname mainname" it listed under the AltNames module within Prat itself, but it kept telling me "Type '/help' for a listing of a few commands." and didn't work. Help! Please and thank you!
Those menu items would taint the dropdowns and make them unable to use the target or focus commands.
Altnames accepts keyboard commands (/alt /alts /altnames) they are the same command.
You link and alt like this:
/alt link <alt> <main>
You should be able to shift click the names to paste them into the command. You can also do this link from the AltNames option panel I believe.
Tab complete may work, I didn't test it.
Hi, I'm a Prat user since years ago! Loved it and I still do... My vote also goes to the arrows issue with the history, but I have a major problem: With the "Set Main" feature missing, found that the /alt /alts and /altnames commands are not working, matching the issue reported here. Any chance to review this? Is a must have for me :) Ty, and keep rocking!
As a german player... using "ALT - TY" to scroll through previous chat lines is quite annoying, since on the german keyboard layout Z and Y are switched - we don't use many Y's.
Please add an option to switch back to UP+DOWN!! Thanks fpr the good work :)
Yeah I'd really like to have the command history scrolling back to the way it was. If this change was intended then we at least need an option. It's incredibly annoying to hit keys that worked for years and not have them work :/
Hey, this is my favourite chat addon BUT please change the chat scrolling back to the arrow keys instead of alt!! I hate that so much and it makes me want to look for another addon.
Agreed!
PLEASE change the arrow keys back. I do not want to use ALT - TY!
same here
I agree with Seanmcgpa....change back to arrows
This about a million times. Why did it change in the first place?
Is it possible to change the alpha of the chat frame without the mouse hovering over it? There is an option to change the frame transparency (in Display Settings> Frames> Set Chatframe Alpha), but that requires you to move your mouse over the frame - I'd like to keep it highlighted by default.
I think something has changed on 5.4: I use chatter rather than Prat and I noticed I need to hold alt too :(