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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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wen_amarth
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Posted May 4, 2020
In reply to sylvanaar:

that's the thing... is not in the addon list , but still I can use your /pratdebug command and see what happened...

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Posted May 4, 2020
In reply to wen_amarth:

Right, I just noticed that that command works even without the debug module (it is just better if you have the debug module)

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Posted May 4, 2020
In reply to sylvanaar:

does it consume much? Maybe you can have it as any of the other modules that need to be loaded to work... hehe

So far had not had any trouble with the fix... all my chats seem to work appropriately

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Posted May 2, 2020
Hello everyone. I have just released some fixes to longstanding issues with errors when you try to right click target, join battlegrounds and other such things that are being blocked.

if you don't mind please try the latest version and let me know which issues have been fixed for you and which are still outstanding.

Thanks everyone for all your support!

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Posted May 3, 2020
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Im still getting major freezes/lagspike when 'lot' of ppl talk at the same time, lot of ppl earn achievements etc etc. party and guild chat mostly, Massive stutter .

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Posted May 3, 2020
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Turn off the color names everywhere feature in the playernames module - it can do that

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Posted May 3, 2020
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Hello. The join BG function worked like a charm the first time I used it. After the fist time it now keeps coming up with an error again. So that function seems to need a bit of tweaking.

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Posted May 3, 2020
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Hello. The join BG function worked like a charm the first time I used it. After the fist time it now keeps coming up with an error again. So that function seems to need a bit of tweaking.

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Posted May 3, 2020
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Hello. The join BG function worked like a charm the first time I used it. After the fist time it now keeps coming up with an error again. So that function seems to need a bit of tweaking.

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Posted May 3, 2020
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Hello. The join BG function worked like a charm the first time I used it. After the fist time it now keeps coming up with an error again. So that function seems to need a bit of tweaking.

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Posted Apr 27, 2020
Prat STILL have a bug everytime you try and rightclick people in chat and target them. You get an error message every time.

Will this be fixed? its getting on my nerves.

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Posted May 2, 2020
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Yes. I just released a fix - well it works for me at the moment - please let me know

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Posted May 2, 2020
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cheers.

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Posted Apr 26, 2020
Can't set guild notes without disabling Prat first.

1x [ADDON_ACTION_FORBIDDEN] AddOn 'Prat-3.0-3.7.50' tried to call the protected function 'SetNote()'.
[string "@!BugGrabber\BugGrabber.lua"]:519: in function <!BugGrabber\BugGrabber.lua:519>
[string "=[C]"]: in function `SetNote'
[string "@FrameXML\StaticPopup.lua"]:2733: in function `OnAccept'
[string "@FrameXML\StaticPopup.lua"]:5077: in function `StaticPopup_OnClick'
[string "*:OnClick"]:1: in function <[string "*:OnClick"]:1>

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Posted Apr 29, 2020
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+1 !

I spent hours thinking about what addon was causing this, it still happens to me. Thanks for letting us know, I hope they can solve it.

Cheers :)

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Posted Apr 30, 2020
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I sequentially disabled prat modules to figure out which one is causing the problem; it's the Timestamp module. I don't know enough about LUA to fix it though; and other chat mods that generate timestamps don't have this problem.

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I sequentially disabled prat modules to figure out which one is causing the problem; it's the Timestamp module. I don't know enough about LUA to fix it though; and other chat mods that generate timestamps don't have this problem.

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I sequentially disabled prat modules to figure out which one is causing the problem; it's the Timestamp module. I don't know enough about LUA to fix it though; and other chat mods that generate timestamps don't have this problem.

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Posted May 2, 2020
In reply to LoneStar2911:

Please try with 3.7.52 and let me know if it is still an issue

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#5518 Posted May 3, 2020

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Still an issue with 3.7.52

1x [ADDON_ACTION_FORBIDDEN] AddOn 'Prat-3.0-3.7.52' tried to call the protected function 'SetNote()'.
[string "@!BugGrabber\BugGrabber.lua"]:519: in function <!BugGrabber\BugGrabber.lua:519>
[string "=[C]"]: in function `SetNote'
[string "@FrameXML\StaticPopup.lua"]:2733: in function `OnAccept'
[string "@FrameXML\StaticPopup.lua"]:5077: in function `StaticPopup_OnClick'
[string "*:OnClick"]:1: in function <[string "*:OnClick"]:1>