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 Ommand:
Yes. Late breaking issue. Working on it.
In reply to sylvanaar:
No worries, just wanted to make sure you were aware.
In reply to sylvanaar:
Apparently it has to do with switching zones. I tested it in the Bulwark. When I switch to WPL and back to Bulwark it fades out instantly.
In instances I also have this but it' doesn't do it all the time when switching zones.
In reply to Forge_User_70747071:
Just standing in SW and it blanks.
In reply to Forge_User_70747071:
I'm standing idle in ironforge with my chat frequently disappearing.
In reply to Ommand:
Check out the new build. I believe I fixed the issue.
In reply to sylvanaar:
I believe you're right.
In reply to sylvanaar:
Also happens every time I loot something, for a second or 2... in a dungeon right now, no zone switches
In reply to Ommand:
Yea, same thing. Something broken with fading. Got it on quest turn ins.
"Scrollback: The length of time to keep the message history is now an option" . It seems it's now the only option. Is there no longer a way to retain chat until you reach the number of chat lines you choose to save?
In reply to FERALMODE:
I guess it could have a 0 setting. It used to have a length because it was stored separately from the chatframe. Now it is just the chatframe history length.
I'll add 0 for you. But do you really need more than 1 week?
In reply to sylvanaar:
It's useful in Classic at least. Chat is far more active and I like to use it as a history for trade, lfg, and forming pugs and stuff if I need to look up a message. I'd appreciate the 0 setting.
Slight Issue with the new implementation of Scrollback - it would save the chat history out of order. This should be fixed now in 3.7.81, and it should erase you history when it upgrades to the new format.
This new method should reduce RAM consumption because we are not keeping our own copy of all the chatlines - we just save what is in the chatframes
search module disable but still search box show
i have latest version updated already
I cant find the option to disable search anyone know how to
In reply to SuzeyQ:
its in module
I had no idea this command was a thing. Now I'll actually be able to use the PlayerNames "color names everywhere" setting, probably.
You may want to mention this command in the addon description. :D
Is there a way to disable the new search thingy? Its always visible even after disabling the module.
Update:
Nevermind. Setting the module to "dont load" disables it for good.
In reply to Zasz_:
You are right - it should hide when the module is disabled. That is a bug. Fixed.