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.
In reply to SuzeyQ:
You can always disable the search module
In the next build I have added a UI for the search feature. It will be living in the upper right corner of the chatframe.
I am trying the feature out and would like some feedback on how to improve it. So it is going to just be on for the next release or so.
In reply to sylvanaar:
Hi, I love teh search function, can you add the ability to move it? And maybe even move it outside of teh chat frame? Because I would place just above teh chat window.
In reply to HD_MOVIE_SOURCE:
I have moved it so that it is more out of the way. What do you think?
In reply to HD_MOVIE_SOURCE:
In reply to HD_MOVIE_SOURCE:
I have moved it so that it is more out of the way. What do you think?
In reply to sylvanaar:
Hi, I love teh search function, can you add the ability to move it? And maybe even move it outside of teh chat frame? Because I would place just above teh chat window.
I agree. Would like to move it instead of it being in the middle of the window. I have opted not to load it at this point because of annoying placement. Nice thought to have it though.
In reply to Shaundi9:
I have moved it so that it is more out of the way. What do you think?
In reply to sylvanaar:
I can't find a way to disable it, it's very inconveniently located and I have no need for it.
Edit: had to change the module from "disabled" to "don't load".
In reply to Ommand:
I have moved it so that it is more out of the way. What do you think?
In reply to sylvanaar:
There isn't going to be a spot I'm happy with as I don't have a need for it :P
Retail: Unable to leave a community. Get the prat has blocked ui error message. Able to leave with prat disabled
In reply to Holy_Z:
Yes. I have to make a major change to Prat to fix issues like these. The changes are ready, but they could cause you guys a lot of problems - so I am trying to decide how to proceed.
In reply to sylvanaar:
no problem its not a huge issue! thanks for your work
I have released a new build with many changes. Please report any problems and you can always install an older version.
In reply to sylvanaar:
thank you for keep updating and solving all issues fast!
Hello, after 3 days update the achievement name and gz link doesn't show, I have tried everything...it just doesn't show any "say grats". How do I go back to before the updates? - it worked then. NoteI want it for Retail WoW, not Classic ;) Thanks
Last view updates I've noticed double achievements show.
Also after today I noticed the achievement name doesnt show. It just shows XXXX got the achievement !! with no name for the achieve.
Also frame rate stutter with Prat enabled.
Not a big deal I went back to 3769. Just and FYI in case it helps.
Thanks for the great addon!!!
In reply to JibsGaming:
If you can see the double achievement and quickly type `/pratdebugmsg` - it will output some text that you can copy and paste here so I can see what is happening.
I remember this being an issue the last time I used prat in Classic and now I'm noticing it again.
Whenever someone emotes something their name appears twice. Once class colored and once emote colored.
For example: [Arxon]Arxon waves at you.
In reply to Arxon_Havenloft:
This should be fixed in the build released today.