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.

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Posted Aug 11, 2018In reply to Forge_User_47299256:
Whatever error crept in with that last update blocked my font overrides back to the Blizz default settings (doesn't help that I'm legally blind/visually impared and this addon helps increasing chat sizes like the old addon Fonter, which can't be found anymore, used to do but royally screwed up the achieve window stuff).
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Posted Aug 10, 2018Error occurs when logging in
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Posted Aug 10, 2018In reply to AbraxasTR:
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Posted Aug 13, 2018In reply to Rubio9:
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Posted Aug 10, 2018Heya this happens when an achievement comes up like for the guild.
Thanks! For making such a great addon.
Have a good day
Message: Interface\AddOns\Prat-3.0\modules\Achievements.lua:924: Usage: GetPlayerInfoByGUID("playerGUID")
Time: Fri Aug 10 00:04:20 2018
Count: 1
Stack: Interface\AddOns\Prat-3.0\modules\Achievements.lua:924: Usage: GetPlayerInfoByGUID("playerGUID")
[C]: ?
[C]: in function `GetPlayerInfoByGUID'
Interface\AddOns\Prat-3.0\modules\Achievements.lua:924: in function <Interface\AddOns\Prat-3.0\modules\Achievements.lua:913>
[C]: in function `gsub'
Interface\AddOns\Prat-3.0\services\patterns.lua:159: in function `MatchPatterns'
Interface\AddOns\Prat-3.0\addon\addon.lua:639: in function <Interface\AddOns\Prat-3.0\addon\addon.lua:565>
(tail call): ?
Interface\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:2898: in function <Interface\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:2891>
(tail call): ?
(tail call): ?
[string "*:OnEvent"]:1: in function <[string "*:OnEvent"]:1>
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Posted Aug 9, 2018Whenever I log in :) Latest version.
Message: Couldn't open Interface\AddOns\Prat-3.0\
Time: Thu Aug 9 21:35:33 2018
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Posted Aug 9, 2018Solution to "x Couldn't open Prat-3.0-r1174" issue found by dafzor: https://www.wowace.com/projects/prat-3-0/issues/31244
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Posted Aug 9, 2018In reply to pseudostudent:
TLDR:
Open the Prat-3.0.toc file
highlight the space on line 3 and delete.
Save the toc file
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Posted Aug 10, 2018In reply to blakbyrd:
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Posted Aug 12, 2018In reply to pseudostudent:
Thank you very much :)
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Posted Aug 9, 20181x Prat-3.0-r1174 \modules\ChannelSticky.lua:380: attempt to call method 'ResgisterSmartGroup' (a nil value)
Prat-3.0-r1174 \modules\ChannelSticky.lua:380: in function `OnModuleDisable'
Prat-3.0-r1174 \addon\modules.lua:190: in function <Prat-3.0\addon\modules.lua:187>
(tail call): ?
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:9: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:5>
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Ace3\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0-12.lua:593: in function <Ace3\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:586>
(tail call): ?
Prat-3.0-r1174 \addon\addon.lua:341: in function `?'
Ace3\AceTimer-3.0\AceTimer-3.0-17.lua:55: in function <Ace3\AceTimer-3.0\AceTimer-3.0.lua:50>
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Posted Aug 9, 2018New errors when loading 3.7.10
121x Couldn't open Prat-3.0-r1174 \
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Posted Aug 9, 2018Two errors when loading.
Message: Interface\AddOns\Prat-3.0\addon\modules.lua:262: Usage: NewModule(name, [prototype, [lib, lib, lib, ...]): 'name' - string expected got 'nil'.
Time: Thu Aug 9 13:09:15 2018
Count: 1
Stack: Interface\AddOns\Prat-3.0\addon\modules.lua:262: Usage: NewModule(name, [prototype, [lib, lib, lib, ...]): 'name' - string expected got 'nil'.
Interface\AddOns\Prat-3.0\addon\modules.lua:336: in function `AddModuleToLoad'
Interface\AddOns\totalRP3\modules\chatframe\prat.lua:31: in function <Interface\AddOns\totalRP3\modules\chatframe\prat.lua:25>
[C]: ?
...erface\AddOns\totalRP3\modules\module_management.lua:118: in function `startModules'
Interface\AddOns\totalRP3\totalRP3.lua:90: in function <Interface\AddOns\totalRP3\totalRP3.lua:46>
[C]: in function `pcall'
Interface\AddOns\totalRP3\totalRP3.lua:114: in function <Interface\AddOns\totalRP3\totalRP3.lua:111>
(tail call): ?
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:9: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:5>
(tail call): ?
...AddOns\AskMrRobot\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:558: in function `EnableAddon'
...AddOns\AskMrRobot\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:651: in function <...AddOns\AskMrRobot\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:636>
[C]: in function `LoadAddOn'
Interface\FrameXML\UIParent.lua:445: in function `UIParentLoadAddOn'
Interface\FrameXML\UIParent.lua:488: in function `CombatLog_LoadUI'
Interface\FrameXML\UIParent.lua:1193: in function <Interface\FrameXML\UIParent.lua:1089>
Locals: <none>
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Message: Couldn't open Interface\AddOns\Prat-3.0\
Time: Thu Aug 9 13:09:17 2018
Count: 3
Stack: Couldn't open Interface\AddOns\Prat-3.0\
Interface\AddOns\totalRP3\libs\Ellyb\Ellyb.lua:37: in function <Interface\AddOns\totalRP3\libs\Ellyb\Ellyb.lua:30>
Locals: <none>
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Posted Aug 9, 2018In reply to BambisFaline:
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Posted Aug 9, 2018In reply to BambisFaline:
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Posted Aug 9, 2018Ever since the patch, whenever my name or a guild's name appears in chat or even chat bubbles, they're green.
From disabling Prat, this addon is what seems to be causing it. Is there any reason this happens and can I turn it off somehow?
Thanks in advance!
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Posted Aug 9, 2018In reply to Rodela18:
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Posted Aug 10, 2018In reply to Lofigus:
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Posted Aug 9, 2018Getting same error
3x Couldn't open Prat-3.0-r1174 \
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Posted Aug 9, 2018