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.
hey
What happened to filtering in BG_SYSTEM_NEUTRAL? It was added in alpha version alpha 3.9.32-4-g6ad213c. but it's not an option now.
Hey,
I have a problem with player names coloring in classic era version, the servers on era are linked and you can shift click to see class/level etc
in normal chat message I can see their class colors without a problem but in loot/roll/system messages they show up as gray (unknown) all the time, is there a way to show them as their class colors like in normal chat messages?
please see
https://i.imgur.com/TF9HgmL.png
https://i.imgur.com/eicfxl7.png
(I also chose "hide server" in "chatformatting > servernames")
I'm using the version that just came out today October 1st and I'm getting several messages stating that prat has been blocked from an action available only for the blizzard user interface when opening the adventure guide and randomly, preventing me from using skills.
In reply to zeith47: That shouldn't be happening. Can you follow the steps at https://github.com/Legacy-of-Sylvanaar/prat-3-0/issues/123#issuecomment-1496441927 and post the results so I can see what's causing the issue.
In reply to plusmouse: This error is difficult to reproduce, and the most times it has happened to me is within a SoloQ arena, in those moments the last thing I can do is perform the procedure requested since there is little time and I have to do /reload as quickly as possible to be able to play, as I mentioned before it happens randomly, I don't know if it is due to changing the map or something in particular
Hey there, appreciate all the effort you guys have done keeping Prat alive. One module that I used to use all the time for alts and whatnot was the Memory module. Not sure if it's been working at all since DF but now leveling a bunch of alts during TW has shown me that the load setting does nothing atm.
In reply to EScott410: Have you saved a layout that you want to use before using the Load Settings option?
In reply to plusmouse: I'm having the same issue, I clicked "save settings" after getting everything set up on one character, and then go onto an Alt and clicked on "load settings" and nothing happens, I even tried a /reload to see if it would do anything and nothing (I've even tried ticking the "load settings automatically" option as well and that does not seem to do anything either)..
Unless I'm missunderstanding how the memory module is supposed to work fully (is it supposed to create any chat tabs as well if they are missing from an alt that are saved into the module? because if it's supposed to, it definitely is not doing so at this time)
In reply to plusmouse: Sorry for the late response, yes. Pretty much the same things JourneyOver stated. I also used to use the "load settings automatically" until one day in SL I realized I hadn't seen trade chat in a while and noticed the auto setting broke what channels I was apart of and had to redo all of my chat settings. So when I was going for heritage armor I would I would manually load the settings for each new character I was making.
I'm probably just be missing a setting for this somewhere, but is there a way to change the font size for text in the edit box? If I set my font size to 10 for all my chat windows, the edit box text seems to stay at 12 it looks a little odd.
ps: thanks for maintaining a great addon, I've been using it for longer than I've used any other addon
hi, I think there is a small bug with the new patch, There is a new feature when wow chat detects that someone sent you an inappropriate message, it hides the message and shows you a link to view this chat, right now click on that link is not working
In reply to maxstriker: Came here to report this as well. The link to view pops up, but it doesn't work with Prat.
In reply to maxstriker: Hi. Do you have an example message which I use to test with?
In reply to plusmouse: Depending on what the game censors, a message appears indicating that the message you received by whisper is potentially inappropriate, and there is a yellow message where you must press to see it, however when you try it it does not work
Hi again, I've found a potential workaround to get the message to display and added it to the latest alpha build. https://legacy.curseforge.com/wow/addons/prat-3-0/files/4771779
In reply to plusmouse: I've pushed a new fix. Its difficult to test, but hopefully this one will work.
In reply to plusmouse:
I'm using the latest version and can't get the message to show, clicking the link won't do anything.
I have a minor enhancement request: Filter out world ping messages in chat (new to patch 10.1.7) from PopupMessage's finding of your own name. As it stands, I have to disable the world ping chat messages in order to not be notified of every single world ping I personally send and that's unfortunate because I'd really like to keep them to see what others do.
In reply to TheCheat54: The latest alpha (available soon) will have this.
Hi, im using the "change font color on message", but is it possible to not change the font for the current open tab I have?