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 could you create an option for the IM style chat bar at the bottom of the box? I don't like that empty space at the bottom of the screen. Thank you for the addon :)
Still no news or plans to fix the issue that has existed since TWW started where the text scale in chat always resets to 12 when you do anything?
We've only had toc updates for new versions but no bug fixes.
In reply to zeith47:
Do you use the Memory module?
In reply to plusmouse: Memory module? A while ago prat came with 2 folders, but after a while it only came with one, currently when you download the addon it only comes with one folder.
I haven't changed any settings, I've only tried to change the text scale and it resets itself when you reload, enter another character, get a message, etc. I've done several addon resets, so it's not a problem with my files and it only happens with prat.
Edit: I think I've found the problem, checking the addon settings I've seen that in ''Font'' the text scale remains at 12 and is not updated when you change the size from the chat (as it has always been done), so it's a bug in the addon that doesn't update these options with the changes you make in the chat.
the "contribute to major excavations" UI was stretched with the buttons off the screen. disabling the addon made it work. It continued to work after re-enabling it
In reply to jayabalard: Not sure if this was Prat or not, as a reload could have fixed _any_ addon's glitches with the frame.
How can i enable the default incoming whisper notification sound as its my understanding that Prat disables this, right?
Get spammed No player named 'Unknown' is currently playing. when invited to groups and the INVITE button never works cause prat try to use the server name from chat
In reply to Furydeath9: Are you sure that this is Prat? Does this happen with Prat disabled?
Is there a way to get the general chat to show zone names? So instead of [1. General] it's [1. General - Barens] for example? I've tried disabling all the modules and re enabling to see what's causing it, seems like it's just a built in feature of the addon which sucks. Is there a special replacement code I can use in the ChannelNames module maybe?
In reply to mrmangos: There's a component of Prat that needs rewriting to fix this.
Hi,
can you update to the latest Classic Era 20th Anniversary Version 1.15.5.
Would be awesome.
Thanks a lot!
history scrollback won't work in my main chat tab :( it works in other tabs
In reply to Snooober: It works for me. What's you settings in the History options (screenshot please, use https://imgur.com )
getting an error on cata classic, not sure if its due to prat or not but i see prat in part of the error. if there is something else i could adjust please let me know;
1x ...aceBlizzard_SharedXML/FontableFrameMixin.lua:22: bad argument #3 to 'SetFont' (Usage: self:SetFont(fontFile, height, flags))
[string "=[C]"]: in function `SetFont'
[string "@Prat-3.0-3.9.60/modules/Font.lua"]:780: in function `SetFontMode'
[string "@Prat-3.0-3.9.60/modules/Font.lua"]:758: in function `ConfigureAllChatFrames'
[string "@Prat-3.0-3.9.60/modules/ChatFrames.lua"]:636: in function <Prat-3.0/modules/ChatFrames.lua:630>
[string "=(tail call)"]: ?
[string "=[C]"]: in function `FloatingChatFrame_UpdateBackgroundAnchors'
[string "@Blizzard_CombatLog/Wrath/Blizzard_CombatLog.lua"]:3283: in function <...dOns/Blizzard_CombatLog/Wrath/Blizzard_CombatLog.lua:3269>
[string "@Blizzard_CombatLog/Wrath/Blizzard_CombatLog.lua"]:3336: in function `FCF_DockUpdate'
[string "@Blizzard_UIParentPanelManager/Classic/UIParentPanelManager_Shared.lua"]:1035: in function `UIParentManageFramePositions'
[string "@Blizzard_UIParentPanelManager/Classic/UIParentPanelManager_Shared.lua"]:325: in function <...PanelManager/Classic/UIParentPanelManager_Shared.lua:312>
[string "=[C]"]: in function `SetAttribute'
[string "@Blizzard_UIParentPanelManager/Classic/UIParentPanelManager_Shared.lua"]:1045: in function <...PanelManager/Classic/UIParentPanelManager_Shared.lua:1043>
[string "=[C]"]: in function `UIParent_ManageFramePositions'
[string "@Blizzard_BuffFrame/Classic/BuffFrame.lua"]:364: in function `BuffFrame_UpdateAllBuffAnchors'
[string "@Blizzard_BuffFrame/Classic/BuffFrame.lua"]:105: in function `BuffFrame_Update'
[string "@Blizzard_SettingsDefinitions_Frame/Classic/InterfaceOverrides.lua"]:103: in function <...ingsDefinitions_Frame/Classic/InterfaceOverrides.lua:102>
[string "=[C]"]: ?
[string "@Blizzard_SharedXMLBase/CallbackRegistry.lua"]:144: in function <...eBlizzard_SharedXMLBase/CallbackRegistry.lua:143>
[string "=[C]"]: ?
[string "@Blizzard_SharedXMLBase/CallbackRegistry.lua"]:147: in function `TriggerEvent'
[string "@Blizzard_SharedXMLBase/CvarUtil.lua"]:114: in function <Blizzard_SharedXMLBase/CvarUtil.lua:106>
Locals:
= ChatFrame5 {
onDisplayRefreshedCallbacks = <table> {
}
oldestFadingLineTimestamp = 423267.070000
tellTimer = 423240.704000
shouldFadeAfterInactivity = false
buttonSide = "left"
textIsCopyable = false
ResizeButton = ChatFrame5ResizeButton {
}
overrideFadeTimestamp = 423267.070000
isScrollingMessageFrame = true
name = "/W"
isUninteractable = false
minimizeButton = ChatFrame5MinimizeButton {
}
buttonFrame = ChatFrame5ButtonFrame {
}
isDocked = 1
alternativeDefaultLanguage = "Orcish"
isInitialized = 1
hasOwnFontObject = true
allowScroll = true
oldAlpha = 1
channelList = <table> {
}
FontStringContainer = Frame {
}
messageTypeList = <table> {
}
flashTimer = 0
timeVisibleSecs = 120
fontObject = table: 0000017DA2433630 {
}
zoneChannelList = <table> {
}
insertMode = 2
defaultLanguage = "Orcish"
isLayoutDirty = true
isDisplayDirty = true
fadeDurationSecs = 3
visibleLines = <table> {
}
scrollOffset = 0
historyBuffer = <table> {
}
clickAnywhereButton = ChatFrame5ClickAnywhereButton {
}
ScrollToBottomButton = Button {
}
editBox = ChatFrame5EditBox {
}
Background = ChatFrame5Background {
}
isLocked = true
}
In reply to Vannicavus: This error has been reported quite a few times, but I've never had it happen to me. And assessing the code doesn't make it clear why it triggers
this is happening to me too. the Save/Load function doesnt work at all it seems
Why does this addon break so bad while using ElvUI?
The editbox is out of place, clicking a chat tab causes the editbox to pop up but like half transparency for some reason (??????)
In reply to DulcetSounds: Its not Prat, its the ElvUI background that needs to be resized,
Has this addon been abandon ?