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.
As always, thank you so much for the work done on this mod.
I had a quick question/request based on another great chat mod from awhile back; Chatter.
Prat appears to have every feature and more of Chatter. There's only one I truly miss and can't seem to find with this addon. Chatter added channel colors by name of channel (i.e. General, etc.) as opposed to number. This was a great feature because the default WoW channel numbers tend to switch automatically jumping in and out of cities. Is it possible to do channel colors by name with Prat by chance?
In reply to Tsuukai:
Do you know which module handles the chat channel colours in Prat?
In reply to plusmouse:
It looks like "ChannelColorMemory" handles it, which is brand new that I can see, but either isn't working or requires a setup config I haven't figured out yet. Honestly, it wasn't there when I wrote the request/question a couple weeks ago.
Has the ability to cycle through previously typed messages been removed?
In reply to Eyevou:
It hasn't, and is still working (pressing the up arrow to get older messages), at least for me.
In reply to plusmouse:
I figured it out, by default you have to use ALT+UPARROW to access typed history. I haven't used the addon in quite a long time so this change went unnoticed by me until now lol. There is an option in Display Settings > Editbox to change it, Thanks for the reply.
Never mind.
Figured it out.
Message: Interface/AddOns/Prat-3.0/services/patterns.lua:234: invalid capture index
Time: Mon Dec 26 17:16:17 2022
Count: 1
Stack: Interface/AddOns/Prat-3.0/services/patterns.lua:234: invalid capture index
[string "=(tail call)"]: ?
[string "=[C]"]: ?
[string "=[C]"]: in function `gsub'
[string "@Interface/AddOns/Prat-3.0/services/patterns.lua"]:234: in function `ReplaceMatches'
[string "@Interface/AddOns/Prat-3.0/addon/addon.lua"]:701: in function <Interface/AddOns/Prat-3.0/addon/addon.lua:612>
[string "=(tail call)"]: ?
[string "@Interface/FrameXML/ChatFrame.lua"]:3150: in function `ChatFrame_OnEvent'
[string "*FloatingChatFrame.xml:675_OnEvent"]:1: in function <[string "*FloatingChatFrame.xml:675_OnEvent"]:1>
Locals: (*temporary) = <function> defined =[C]:-1
In reply to Haur:
What were you doing when this error triggered?
In reply to plusmouse:
It happened to me too today. That was only while I was in Oribos. Something from Trade chat might be causing it. I was on lvl 60 alts.
Hi guys, thank you for supporting the addon!
I've noticed that on Retail (latest stable addon version) I can't post any links to my mounts.
E.g. when I try to link my "Plainswalker Bearer" mount, it only prints first 5 letters of the mount name "[Plai" and stops, thus unable to post the link.
Can you take a look?
In reply to nezorflame:
Which chat box does this apply to? I've tested the default one with no issues, got a "[Plainswalker Bearer]" text in the editbox and it sent as a say message.
Hi! Great addon and I love it and use it since many years. I just encountered the following problem - it was there before, but it has gotten worse now. When I go to the "copy frame", I literally cant copy anything. The copied line is not the line that I highlight... when I highlight a message like 5 lines before it copies the newest line. Is this a common problem or just me? Any idea how to fix it?
In reply to TheKingOfKingz2109:
I've put a fix for that problem in the latest alpha. Can you test it and report if its also fixed for you?
In reply to plusmouse:
Hi! Thank you for your quick reaction! I just tested it and it is fixed for me! :D
Thank you so much!
How do you make the tabs fade out and disappear when chat isn't being used?
In reply to Francomarx:
You can use the ChatTabs module in Prat
Hi,
I get this when I go into Edit Mode.
I saw skinner addon recently got updated with "Disable Functions/modules causing ADDON_ACTION_BLOCKED/FORBIDDEN errors in Retail".
Since Prat is very modular, is there a module or modules in Prat that could be disabled to avoid this?
I see same/similar issue was reported some weeks ago.
8x [ADDON_ACTION_FORBIDDEN] AddOn 'Prat-3.0-3.9.13' tried to call the protected function 'TargetUnit()'.
[string "@!BugGrabber/BugGrabber.lua"]:480: in function <!BugGrabber/BugGrabber.lua:480>
[string "=[C]"]: in function `TargetUnit'
[string "@FrameXML/EditModeManager.lua"]:1512: in function `RefreshTargetAndFocus'
[string "@FrameXML/EditModeManager.lua"]:1532: in function `SetTargetAndFocusShown'
[string "@FrameXML/EditModeManager.lua"]:1345: in function `onBoxToggled'
[string "@SharedXML/SharedUIPanelTemplates.lua"]:1566: in function `OnCheckButtonClick'
[string "*EditModeTemplates.xml:17_OnClick"]:1: in function <[string "*EditModeTemplates.xml:17_OnClick"]:1>
In reply to Quartzfire:
Do you have the ChatTabs module enabled?
In reply to plusmouse:
I did, disabled it, reloaded ... et viola - don't get the issue, but now my chat panel looks *&^% :-)