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.
New Feature - I have absorbed the addon SpamBayes in order to provide a basic spam filter to everyone.
The filter works via machine learning. You need to tell it what is spam and what isn't through the training interface.
To start open the filters module and enable the "AI Spam Filter", and the "AI Training"
You will see some new information on each chat line. There is a percentage score and links with + and -
The score is how likely the AI thinks the chat line is spam. You can influence the AI by clicking the link -- (not spam) or ++ (spam)
Help the AI learn what is spam and what is not, and monitor its progress at learning. When you are happy that it is catching enough spam. Turn off training mode. Messages which had a RED percentage score will be filtered out.
The best part is that you can train it to recognize spam if you want - or whatever else you would like. It does have limitations on what it can do - but for simple uses it should be OK
Are toxic players your thing? Want to filter them out? Go ahead - you are in control!
interesting idea put coords posted in chat as a clickable link,that tells tomtom to add a /way of the coords
In reply to Nirran00:
Yeah - great idea.
What is the use case? Because it could just as well be its own addon.
In reply to sylvanaar:
convinience,.donno
herya greata ddon,used it for ages,new slight bug,when a charracters name appears in system chat,it is grey instead of class colors,isnt a big deal
In reply to Nirran00:
will check it out. It’s due to an optimization
Recently started getting the following error.
2x Prat-3.0-3.8.22-1-g298db5f\modules\Achievements-Achievements.lua:842: Usage: GetPlayerInfoByGUID("playerGUID")
[string "=[C]"]: in function `GetPlayerInfoByGUID'
[string "@Prat-3.0-3.8.22-1-g298db5f\modules\Achievements-Achievements.lua"]:842: in function <Prat-3.0\modules\Achievements.lua:831>
[string "=(tail call)"]: ?
[string "=[C]"]: in function `gsub'
[string "@Prat-3.0-3.8.22-1-g298db5f\services\patterns.lua"]:197: in function `MatchPatterns'
[string "@Prat-3.0-3.8.22-1-g298db5f\addon\addon.lua"]:695: in function <Prat-3.0\addon\addon.lua:613>
[string "=(tail call)"]: ?
[string "@FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua"]:3018: in function `ChatFrame_OnEvent'
[string "*:OnEvent"]:1: in function <[string "*:OnEvent"]:1>
Locals:
(*temporary) = "0000000000000000"
In reply to MacallanTwoFive:
Thanks for the stack. That helps a lot
I have my toon's name in the Incoming Filter and set a bell to go off so I can be alerted when someone says my name in chat.
Since the last couple weeks, the filter has not been sounding the bell.
All other filters work.
In reply to BambisFaline:
Yes it’s probably because of the highlight module or interactions with color names everywhere in playernames. Can you try toggling these things and let me know if anything makes it work again?
Pardon if already reported but didn't see it in issues: the copy chat window is now in reverse order compared to the actual chat window. First noticed today but I don't use the feature that often so could have changed weeks ago. Perhaps it has an option setting now but I did not see one so let me know if I just missed it.
Thanks for the addon!
In reply to Lorry33:
I am having the same issue.
Image Link for reference:
In reply to Lorry33:
This is also the case for me. Very frustrating to have to manually reverse copied lines.
In reply to Kanegasi:
Try with latest
In reply to Lorry33:
I don’t know when I broke it - it’s been a little while since I did, but it should be fixed now. Please check.
In reply to sylvanaar:
All better! Thanks so much!
Is it possible for prat to hide the ability and madness affixes in visions that are getting almost spammed during certain encounters?
I can't get the chat box to have a black background, it always is transparent which makes it really difficult to read. How do you change that background opacity?
In reply to Kalyx_Wyvern:
Go to the first chat tab, right click it, and on that little menu there will be "background". When you click it - you will see a slider on the right side of the window that opens. Push it all the way to the top.
Thanks for the updates!