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 kird:
That's a game setting, not Prat. Go to your Interface > Chat settings and you'll see the option to disable that.
unfortunately i stop using the addon i keep give me crash game when i enter M+
Hey! The minimize button mentioned in settings > display settings > buttons > show minimize button, does not exist. Could you please actually implement this? I really want to be able to hide my chat! <3
Can you make so General and combat log allso fade out...
> Click timestamp to copy line
Is there a way to disable this? can't find the option anywhere.
In reply to railander:
can i have this feature back? it was fairly helpful.
i hope for an update soon!
hi when i receive w the windows keep over each other!!!!!
Problems I encounter with Prat-3.0-3.9.1 version:
I´m having a weird issue: the Timestamps Copy chat doesn´t work for me in one char and the other one works well!!! And they have the same profile config that one is the Default! Crazy!!!! Anyone had this trouble either? Tried to delete...reset...nothing works and the alt char works fine....disabled all other addons and nothing,,,,any fix?
In reply to Deejazz:
Same issue.
Hey guys having issues since coming back for Shadowlands and seem to be unable to /who at all it just says "adding X to the queue" and then "Timeout on result of X - retrying" and nothing ever searches or comes up. Is this a known issue or is there a way to disable this or something I am missing. I feel like I have seen no complaints about this, my version is the most recent on here and when I disable prat I can /who properly. What am I doing wrong?
Can you pls add a incoming sound for hilights? i.e. if someone write my name in chat/trade/guild wherever, it makes a sound for that? thanks
In reply to pawnzee:
I thought that was already in Prat, because I used to have that function. Trying to figure out what did it and why it's gone. :(
Does the classic version of this totally prevent you from entering battlegrounds due to UI error?
I'm getting alot errors:
Is the NPC Bubbles error message spam ever gonna get fixed?
In reply to hsramm:
Hey, for me only one issue- settings for chat bubbles don't work in any combination, can I fix that somehow?
Hi
since around 6? months prat munches my chatlines together.
it doesnt seem to be related to another addon but im not really sure because its happening just now and then when a lot chatlines are produced at the same time and even then not everytime.
here are 2 example screenshots i have taken.
i thought some time ago there was such an issue and i hoped it would resolve over time when updates coming out but it still does this munching.
https://gyazo.com/61882badde7e82aa20962fa6a3b3099f
https://gyazo.com/c15027c2e22c2a5ec8ed5427888baf07
In reply to gg_branch:
This never happened to me, I think may be two reasons that you need to investigate.
1) Probably another addon interfering with the chat addon?
2) Maybe you need a fresh install, i.e. delete your Prat files inside of your WTF folder, you do not need to delete all of your WTF folder, but just delete the ones associated with prat.
goodluck.