Prat 3.0

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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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sharpless78
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Posted Oct 17, 2020
In reply to KAL2000:

Replace all GuildRoster() with C_GuildInfo.GuildRoster()

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Posted Oct 17, 2020
In reply to KAL2000:

find modules\PlayerNames.lua:1357

GuildRoster()

replace

C_GuildInfo.GuildRoster()

find modules\PlayerNames.lua:1155

GuildRoster()

replace

C_GuildInfo.GuildRoster()

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Posted Oct 17, 2020
error 1

1x Prat-3.0-3.8.26\modules\PlayerNames.lua:1155: attempt to call global 'GuildRoster' (a nil value)
[string "@Prat-3.0-3.8.26\modules\PlayerNames.lua"]:1155: in function `OnModuleEnable'
[string "@Prat-3.0-3.8.26\addon\modules.lua"]:189: in function <Prat-3.0\addon\modules.lua:178>
[string "=[C]"]: ?
[string "@Ace3\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0-13.lua"]:70: in function <Ace3\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:65>
[string "@Ace3\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0-13.lua"]:527: in function `EnableAddon'
[string "@Ace3\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0-13.lua"]:540: in function `EnableAddon'
[string "@Ace3\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0-13.lua"]:630: in function <Ace3\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:615>

error 2

2x Prat-3.0-3.8.26\modules\PlayerNames.lua:1323: attempt to call global 'GuildRoster' (a nil value)
[string "@Prat-3.0-3.8.26\modules\PlayerNames.lua"]:1323: in function `fx'
[string "@Prat-3.0-3.8.26\modules\PlayerNames.lua"]:1733: in function `?'
[string "@Ace3\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0-7.lua"]:119: in function <...Ons\Ace3\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:119>
[string "=[C]"]: ?
[string "@Ace3\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0-7.lua"]:29: in function <...Ons\Ace3\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:25>
[string "@Ace3\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0-7.lua"]:64: in function `Fire'
[string "@Prat-3.0-3.8.26\addon\addon.lua"]:673: in function <Prat-3.0\addon\addon.lua:613>
[string "=(tail call)"]: ?
[string "@FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua"]:3031: in function `ChatFrame_OnEvent'
[string "*:OnEvent"]:1: in function <[string "*:OnEvent"]:1>

error 3

4x Prat-3.0-3.8.26\modules\PlayerNames.lua:1323: attempt to call global 'GuildRoster' (a nil value)
[string "@Prat-3.0-3.8.26\modules\PlayerNames.lua"]:1323: in function `fx'
[string "@Prat-3.0-3.8.26\modules\PlayerNames.lua"]:1733: in function `?'
[string "@Ace3\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0-7.lua"]:119: in function <...Ons\Ace3\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:119>
[string "=[C]"]: ?
[string "@Ace3\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0-7.lua"]:29: in function <...Ons\Ace3\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:25>
[string "@Ace3\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0-7.lua"]:64: in function `Fire'
[string "@Prat-3.0-3.8.26\addon\addon.lua"]:673: in function <Prat-3.0\addon\addon.lua:613>
[string "=(tail call)"]: ?
[string "@FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua"]:3031: in function `ChatFrame_OnEvent'
[string "*:OnEvent"]:1: in function <[string "*:OnEvent"]:1>

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Posted Oct 17, 2020
In reply to Ashardiss:

Also Prat isn't compatible with the new mentor system. It doesn't show the Murloc or Flag Icons in the chat window

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Posted Oct 17, 2020
Quote from markusp12 >>

i am no programmer, so maybe that is not the correct way to do it, but the following fixed problems with pet battles for me:

find line 825 in modules/editbox.lua

add before that line:

Mixin(frame, BackdropTemplateMixin)

Thank you, this works.
I thought it was one of the other addons Rematch & Petracker having a fit but turns out that it was prat.

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Posted Oct 17, 2020
most of addons been updated working but prat not working well even with the manual fixing

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Posted Oct 16, 2020
can someone look into the transparent bubbles modules ?? D:

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Posted Oct 16, 2020
Will this be updated for 9.0.1?

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Posted Oct 16, 2020
Quote from markusp12 >>

i am no programmer, so maybe that is not the correct way to do it, but the following fixed problems with pet battles for me:

find line 825 in modules/editbox.lua

add before that line:

Mixin(frame, BackdropTemplateMixin)

edit: sorry for double reply. Did not work first time, so i retried

Yeah I tried it! It works!!! Thank you!! :)

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Posted Oct 16, 2020
In reply to Forge_User_23196289:

How exactly is the line supposed to look like? People like me get confused when we can only see half the line.

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Posted Oct 16, 2020
i am no programmer, so maybe that is not the correct way to do it, but the following fixed problems with pet battles for me:

find line 825 in modules/editbox.lua

add before that line:

Mixin(frame, BackdropTemplateMixin)

edit: sorry for double reply. Did not work first time, so i retried

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Posted Oct 16, 2020
In reply to markusp12:

This also fixed the SetBackdropBorderColor errors it was throwing when replying to battle.net whispers! THANK YOU!!

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Posted Oct 17, 2020
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Thank you so, so much for managing to find the fix, very good work, much appreciated by me and 10 alts :D

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Posted Oct 16, 2020
Quote from Lomack01 >>

FYI. I did all this stuff, and Prat stopped giving me errors.

However... I had a problem (before and after editing) where when I entered a pet battle the pet battle UI showed no ability buttons for the pets, and no way to leave the battle (logging out worked). The only button I could press was "Pass" all the other buttons were invisible, and when I pressed a button assuming it was a graphics glitch, I received an error in Blizzar_PetBattleUI.lua which is part of the core UI not an addon.

I disabled all my addons one by one, and Prat was the issue.

Just posting in case anyone encounters something similar. I have no fix. Just disabled Prat for now since its pet battle week in NA.

I checked it and i can confirm i have the same issue... any fix so far?

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In reply to Forge_User_23196289:

i am no programmer, so maybe that is not the correct way to do it, but the following fixed problems with pet battlesfor me:

find line 825 in modules/editbox.lua

add before that line:

Mixin(frame, BackdropTemplateMixin)

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Posted Oct 17, 2020
In reply to markusp12:

when you say before that line do you mean above that line? or at the start of that line?

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Posted Oct 18, 2020
In reply to cazmack:

it should be place on a separate line above the Line that throws the error.

the final block would look like this:

for _, frame in ipairs(self.frames) do Mixin(frame, BackdropTemplateMixin) frame:SetBackdrop({
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Posted Oct 19, 2020
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awesome. thanks for the reply!

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Posted Oct 16, 2020
Quote from oxed >>

hmm i did all the mentioned fixed but still have an issue when someone whispers to me I hear voice alert but can't see whisper window! i missed a lot of friends w they thought I'm ignoring lol

Edi2: i had the same issue. it turned out that blizz was somehow messing with the addon in interface options at social there is an option for new whispers. i changed that to both and now it shows me the whispers perfectly... (even without all these editing i just updated to the newest Alpha version) hope it helps :)

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Posted Oct 16, 2020
Quote from ramahan >>

In reply to Thanatar4400:

The fake Twitch update replaces the edited Lua file. It is almost as if Overwolf doesn't want you repairing them on your own.

Last night everything were working.It had an update 2 days ago and prat was working fine with me. like before the prepatch. i used wowup.io client Today it showed me update again and did it and now i have problems for the first time. specially with the incoming whispers.. it is odd though cause in twitch i see that the latest version were many days back.. so what did I updated and worked? its seems so odd... also i updated some other things also and maybe some of these other addons somehow broked things. since even with the fix mentioned here i cant see the whispers at all. i installed wim again and it show the person that whispers but not what he say. really odd

EDIT: It seems that the whispers Issue is not related to Prat. cause i disabled it and still i cannot see my whispers.......any ideas?

EDIT 2 FIX: for the whispers the is an option at WoW options> Social> New whispers choose "in line" or "Both" instead of new tab.

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