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 Zasz_:
Its Prat, its not happening with other addons. Also it started happening after this version https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/prat-3-0/files/4061916
In reply to NILLme:
I think it started with the pre-patch last week. I had to remove prat entirely back then until a few days ago and I wasnt able to set up the alpha settings for the background with and without prat. A more experienced user told me yesterday its some change how the chat works now, enforcing a background on mouseover regardless what we set up.
I realized that every chat mod I tried to use caused an error. So it's not a Prat problem. I used MoveandImprove addon to resize and move my chat frame and it works fine for me. Try it. If you will get an error - just skip it, dont disable chat addon, it will work fine.
When i click edit mode, ingame editor takes over and I cannot resize properly my chat window. I dont ask for much, if this can be solved, would be awesome.
Unfortunately it seems to not work still
Im not getting any errors with the latest alpha version, thanks for updating this addon and keeping it alive <3
In reply to NILLme:
Comfirm :)
Prat still spitting out so many errors, I have disable.
21 with last update.
I appreciate your hard work updating the addon, but it's still unusable.
1x Prat-3.0-3.9.3-22-ge560f0b\modules\Highlight.lua:278: attempt to index upvalue 'CLR' (a nil value)
[string "@Prat-3.0-3.9.3-22-ge560f0b\modules\Highlight.lua"]:278: in function <Prat-3.0\modules\Highlight.lua:277>
[string "@Prat-3.0-3.9.3-22-ge560f0b\modules\Highlight.lua"]:294: in function <Prat-3.0\modules\Highlight.lua:292>
[string "=(tail call)"]: ?
[string "=[C]"]: in function `gsub'
[string "@Prat-3.0-3.9.3-22-ge560f0b\services\patterns.lua"]:197: in function `MatchPatterns'
[string "@Prat-3.0-3.9.3-22-ge560f0b\addon\addon.lua"]:695: in function <Prat-3.0\addon\addon.lua:613>
[string "=(tail call)"]: ?
[string "@FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua"]:2995: in function <FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:2984>
[string "=(tail call)"]: ?
[string "*:OnEvent"]:1: in function <[string "*:OnEvent"]:1>
Locals:
text = "<"
(*temporary) = nil
(*temporary) = nil
(*temporary) = nil
(*temporary) = nil
(*temporary) = "attempt to index upvalue 'CLR' (a nil value)"
CLR = nil
Why does this say it was updated an hour ago, yet the most recent file is two years old?
In reply to KarsiTV:
It's probably an alpha, not a release yet.
In reply to KarsiTV:
If you click on the "Files" tab to the right of "Description" at the top of this page, then find the "View All" button located to the right of the "Recent Files" heading you will see all the Alpha versions that are being worked on. Just expect that there may be errors as it's a work in progress.
Can't seem to access prat through /prat since the update a little while ago. Empty menus.
I have my background opacity transparent (0%), but when I put my mouse over the chat window or scroll up, it somehow gets a dark tint in the chat window again. Is there anyway to fix this so it stays clear even when scrolling?
Also, how can I edit the editbox's font size?
Thank you :)
There is many "Prat" versions around which appeared as quick fixes while addon wasnt properly maintained. Probably they should be removed to not cause confusion and their useful fixes (if there is any) incorporated into "main" trunk.
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/prat-3-0-classic
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/prat-tbc
https://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info26044-Prat-3.0WotLKC.html
Hello, before the patch my chat box was positioned to the right corner screen, so the Social tab (aka friendlist button) would automatically move to the right as well. That function is gone now, is there any way to get it back?
The automated "congrats" function doesn't appear to be working; is that some sort of conflict with Blizz's "improved" UI? (Not sure if AltNames is working correctly either, but still working on that.)
Is there any way to get the chat box all the way into the bottom left corner? The chat box is smaller than the moveable chat frame so it never can go completely into the corner.
In reply to Tanoshii2k1:
THIS! So, so, this. Its making my eye twitch ...
In reply to Tanoshii2k1:
The easiest way right now is to use leatrix plus and choose the option to allow the chat frame to be moved outside the scrren.