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 b9ty:
This behavior was introduced into the game in 8.3. There is no workaround - I would have to add a feature to restore it.
In reply to sylvanaar:
fml. this feels so terrible... ^_^
let's hope shadowlands will have an option for that (not keeping my fingers crossed though) thanks for your reply!
Hello, thank you for all your work with this addon. Question, I noticed recently a small World of Warcraft icon to the left of what appear to be the names of those that whisper me. What setting is this associated with?
In reply to eightflat:
Oh right. Those are the Battle.NET client icons (which game are you playing, or which app are you using). Showing those is an option in the playernames modules.
Have a moment to get used to it being there, and let me know your thoughts on it. I have some thought about making other icons available as well, so I need some way of making people aware that the option is there.
In reply to sylvanaar:
Thank you for the reply! Hmm... I'm not sure if it's because of my font settings, but the thing that bothered me the most is that the icon wasn't aligned with the name: https://imgur.com/a/TwOYnRV.
In reply to eightflat:
Hey, thanks for the screenshot. Hmmm, I will see if I can adjust it a little - It may be that it isn't possible to align it so that it works with every custom font out there without a custom adjustment too
Hello. I am releasing a new module "Memory". It allows you to make your chat settings once, and use those settings across your whole account.
Before you start, if you want to sync all your accounts, make sure you have selected the "Default" profile in the profile options.
To get started, try manual mode. Open the options tab, locate the memory module. You can save and restore the settings by pressing the save/restore button.
When you think you have the right settings you can enable the option to have the settings applied automatically at login
Coming soon will be an option to save settings automatically as well.
BE CAREFUL - IT IS STILL A BIT EXPERIMENTAL.
Please let me know how this feature is working for you!
In reply to sylvanaar:
All my community settings vanished, and community chat cannot be seen in the General chat (or any chat) window. Removed addon for now.
In reply to Jerricka:
Care to provide some details about what you did?
Also - what community settings?
Got error with latest version
1x Prat-3.0-3.8.7-2-ga1367bf\modules\Scrollback.lua:129: attempt to index global 'C_BattleNet' (a nil value)
Prat-3.0-3.8.7-2-ga1367bf\modules\Scrollback.lua:129: in function <Prat-3.0\modules\Scrollback.lua:125>
Prat-3.0-3.8.7-2-ga1367bf\modules\Scrollback.lua:145: in function <Prat-3.0\modules\Scrollback.lua:144>
[C]: in function `gsub'
Prat-3.0-3.8.7-2-ga1367bf\modules\Scrollback.lua:181: in function `RestoreLastSession'
Prat-3.0-3.8.7-2-ga1367bf\modules\Scrollback.lua:87: in function `OnModuleEnable'
Prat-3.0-3.8.7-2-ga1367bf\addon\modules.lua:187: in function <Prat-3.0\addon\modules.lua:178>
[C]: ?
...ceAdiBags\libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0-12.lua:70: in function <...ceAdiBags\libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:65>
...ceAdiBags\libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0-12.lua:527: in function `EnableAddon'
...ceAdiBags\libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0-12.lua:540: in function `EnableAddon'
...ceAdiBags\libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0-12.lua:620: in function <...ceAdiBags\libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:605>
[C]: in function `LoadAddOn'
FrameXML\UIParent.lua:353: in function `UIParentLoadAddOn'
In reply to GregoryWW:
Thanks for running the alphas and reporting issues! That's been fixed.
"Show Arrows" is now working weird. Arrows will show until I go into settings and turn it on then off again.
I have written this before - that the achievement and the "grats"-line not showing...then I had 2 more updates on this addon - and it worked in the middle one - but with the last it didn't work again...? How do I install the previous version that worked? Sorry for the inconvinience - the addon is really helpful for me as a GM to smooth be able to say grats to all my guildies that accieve achievements :) Thanks for the reply - I installed the version from 31/5 and it works! :) THANK YOU!
In reply to Forge_User_95952706:
If you know the version you can tell the twitch client to download that one specifically.
In twitch client click the addon name in your list of installed addons, then click versions, then click the icon to install the one you want.
But let me know which ones worked and which did not. I suspect that when I did my 3.8 release it turned off the achievement channel processing.
In reply to sylvanaar:
I installed the version from 31/5 and that works - THANK YOU! :)
In reply to Forge_User_95952706:
It should be fixed in the current version now too. I found the bug I introduced
3.8.5 now disables message blink on new whisper and makes a "tink" sound every single whisper I get. How can I disable this change without completely disabling the addon? I've messed with all the settings and have found no relief except turning off prat as a whole. The sound is driving me absolutely mad.
In reply to aphelyite:
I was testing it. The behavior by default is to make the little click sound once and only again if there have been no whispers in the past 5 minutes.
Is that what is happening?
What whisper mode do you use? PopOut, Inline, or both
You don't have the sounds module on for whispers do you? Inbound or outbound
Hello, I noticed a strange issue with prat that popped up recently and even when I went back to previous versions it didn't fix it, but whenever I have "PlayerNames" module on anything I get from the Blizzard Group/Community chats that I am in is just random letters and numbers. It seems to be the only module that does it, and it happens with all my other addons on or off. All other chat channels seem to work fine. Here is a SS of what was going on, all I was typing there was "test". Thanks for all your hard work BTW.
In reply to Darmuth:
Can you capture the debug for that.
Type /pratdebugmsg right after the text appears and paste the output here
I think you might have some kind of highlight that is messing that up. It seems like the color of a hunter.
Do you have a hunter named Kv that you know or something?
Ok - I need to make a fix for this anyway - because it shouldn't break those links