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)
- Machine learning 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 have been using prat for years and with the last major update some key features just stopped working. I love the addon, thank you for your hard work
1 - chat history never saves - if toggled in the past, upon next login you would see previous conversations. Haven't been able to get this to work in any channel
2 - not sure what this one was called - but if I typed something out (any channel) ie /r blah blah >hit enter, if the person DCd or whatever, they logged back in hit r again then the up arrow key it would automatically reinput/re-send what I said previously. Same thing goes for if I typed out raid tactics.. I either now have to copy and paste, so I don't have to keep typing it out.
So im not the only one with these issues, Hoozar !!
Heres to hoping its fixed soon, but the old ctrl+up - seems to work for chat history etc fyi
"Prat-3.0 has been blocked from an action only available to the Blizzard UI." when you open the map and close it again after todays patch (EU)
5.4.1 This add-on is causing pet battle UI's to not show, distorts the micro menu as well.
Any ETA on fixing command history?
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 issues reported here. Any chance to review this? Is a must have for me :) Ty, and keep rocking!
Great add-on, but the main and probably the only function which I used it for no longer works since 5.4
Up-arrow is broken.......
Up-arrow function was the best tool I used to use to scroll through my previous Raid Warnings so I don’t have to type long sentences over and over, Using alt and up-arrow to scroll from wow doesn’t cut it. Please find us a fix. Thank you.
There is a bug in Prat that causes any logitech display panels (such as on the G15 keyboard) to show the wrong whisper names. When it comes from a character, it works fine. When it comes from a RealID friend, it always shows up as a Whisper From the last alphabetical player on your friends list. If you disable Prat, the logitech display works correctly.
Das vorherige aufrufen des davor gesendeten Chattextes funktioniert nicht mehr mittels Enter+Pfeil nach oben
Hat da wer ne Idee zu ?
Du musst jetzt ALT+Pfeil noch oben drücken dann ist alles wie gehabt.
Is ne Änderung von Blizzard gewesen.
Vielen Dank , klappt perfekt :)
UnitIsSameServer() was changed in 5.4 to only accept one input, so TellTarget is broken if the target isn't on your realm.
The fix is easy: (i'm not sure the line anymore, cuz I've made three changes and they are all pushing the lines down. it should be around 215 of \Prat-3.0\modules\TellTarget.lua
change from
if realm and not UnitIsSameServer("target") then
to
if UnitRealmRelationship("target") ~= LE_REALM_RELATION_SAME then
I've tested this on normal servers and the current connected realms.
UnitIsSameServer() returns 1 when the target is on a connected realm with you, so another method was needed and UnitRealmRelationship() works.
Just like #3498 wrote Im curious if there is any way to block certain keywords like "Rarecoordinator" or "Raretimer" since the chat gets spammed with those addons on the Timeless Isle. And I was hoping this was possible within Prat.
Cheers
There is the customfilters module. Not the easiest module to use though I did make a blog post about it once - the blog here at curse has gone missing.
I burned the feed though. You can still read it here:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/sylvanaar/addons/prat
The command is ALT+up arrow by default correct? This was one of the things I loved to have and pretty sad it's not working anymore. Here's to hoping a fix will be found sooner than later :)
I was also wondering if it would be possible to have an option to also make alterations to the combat log and pet combat windows. I made it stop ignoring the standard combat log (wasn't sure where the pet combat ignoring came into affect).
Thanks!
command history (up arrow while in editbox) doesn't seem to do anything since the 5.4 update, any fixes on the horizon?
They changed the default UI, and I haven't found a workaround I like yet.
Can you hide the tabs ?
If I remember correctly the base wow UI did this too. I know that at one point when I first released prat 3 I had code to redo all the lines on the chatframes, and sometimes this would happen if lines were too long etc.