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.
Is there a way to enable times stamps for the combat log?
What's the difference between "don't load" and "disable" for the modules? I assume Don't Load is more restrictive and just never loads them in memory, whereas Disable loads them but never calls them? Is the idea that you initially have things disabled then once you figure out how you like your setup, you set the Disabled ones to Don't Load?
I have the same problem, I really hope it will be solved soon
Since the last patch, Prat does not add alt names to its database any more - I think it must be the -[realm name] change made in that patch. I reinstalled it on my desktop PC thinking it was corrupted, and lost all the alt names - on my laptop, however, where I hadn't changed anything, it still reports the alt names it already had in its file, but cannot collect new alt names as they are added to my guild. Any way to fix tthis?
Previously, with Prat installed, I didn't have to hold Alt to scroll up through previous typed messages/commands. Since some more recent release of Prat (or perhaps WoW itself,) I've got to hold Alt to access the history.
Was this behavior changed on purpose? If so, is there a way I can get the old behavior back?
Thanks
I am unable to right click a players name in chat and report them. When pratt is turned off the report button shows up and Im able to do so. I made sure that my Interactive button is checked....Is this an issue with Pratt or with me? heres a fourm I found with other ppl with the same issue http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/10311601084
with prat i seem to not be able to open any links in chat. all links like items, achivements, names and so on act like normal text with prat activated... hope this issue is an easy fix as the mod are useless for me with this issue...
Edit:
Never mind... i had made chat non interactive... :P
For those of you experiencing the error where names with alt characters cause issues, the problem is with some of the included font files. To fix this just download the desired font from a third party website and replace the font in the addon with your new font file. This fixed the problem for me.
It doesn't show/import alt names anymore.
Any suggestion?
Thx
It doesn't save the last wrote. If i use arrow up or down.
How to fix it?
alt + up or down
Don't work for me =/
Thanks...works.
I'm wondring if it is a PRAT-bug that from the newest version on it doesn't autocomplete names from /w peoples.
E.G. when I want to guildinvte a player that is /w me, formerly it was autocompleting the rest of the name as I type the first letter of the players name.
Now it doesn't do this anymore. Is this from PRAT?
THX a lot!
How i personally do guildinvites (Not particular Prat oriented this reply but it works).
Make sure the player you want to invite whispers you in a direct whisper (pink) - Place cursor in the name box, then <Hold Shift and Left Mouse Click Name> - No typing needed at all :)
I have a problem since the version 3.5.7: the chat dosen't show the level of my guild mates, i have to maj click on their name, and then it shows it.
But when i leave the game, it forgot the lvl of my mates.
Anyone come up with a fix yet?
No class colors after 5.4.2
I'm experiencing the same issue. Is there any fix for it?
It looks like it isnt problem only for Prat, got it on ElvUI too. But for example Tukui dont have this problem. Weird....
And as I can see, it isnt caused by all of Polish marks, for example ę, ż, ź, ń are causing, but ć, ó not. And all of Cyrylic letters are causing.
And when some russian guy write something on /rw i cannot see it in chat, but on middle of screen I see it..
Hello, after 5.4.2 I got weird bug with prat. I tried turning it off and it seems to be fault of prat. Special letters like ą, ź, ż, ć, etc, from Polish alphabet and Rusian Cyrylic letters are making whole chat lines to disappear. Thats how my chat looks like after Ordos with Russians, you can see that even nicknames in cyrylica are not shown here http://i.imgur.com/ZpQ2yOa.png
For example if i write on guild chat something without those letters it will be normally shown, but when I write with them its cut.
[G][Dodzik]: Im showing behaviour of this bug
[G][Dodzik]: Im showing
It looks like that when I put one of those bad letters between "showing" and "behaviour"