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 plusmouse:
This is the whole file, I suspect what really matters is the last one though, that is the one from when i hit an action button I think.
In reply to subkool:
Thanks for the log - it says that the ChatTabs module is to blame for the protected error. Unfortunately because of the way Blizzard has setup edit mode doing some adjustments to the chat frame is impossible without tainting everything.
In reply to plusmouse:
I'm running it in conjunction with LS:Glass so maybe that's an issue too. I'll just disable that module and see. Thanks!
The auto-abbreviate feature under ServerNames isn't working.
In reply to weltallica:
What language are you playing in (so I can test it)? Its working for me in English.
[string "=[C]"]: in function `UseItemByName'
[string "@Interface/FrameXML/ChatFrame.lua"]:1178: in function `SecureCmdUseItem'
[string "@Interface/FrameXML/ChatFrame.lua"]:1217: in function `?'
[string "@Interface/FrameXML/ChatFrame.lua"]:5204: in function <Interface/FrameXML/ChatFrame.lua:5170>
[string "=[C]"]: in function `ChatEdit_ParseText'
[string "@Interface/FrameXML/ChatFrame.lua"]:4888: in function <Interface/FrameXML/ChatFrame.lua:4887>
[string "=[C]"]: in function `ChatEdit_SendText'
[string "@Interface/FrameXML/ChatFrame.lua"]:4924: in function `ChatEdit_OnEnterPressed'
[string "*ChatFrame.xml:127_OnEnterPressed"]:1: in function <[string "*ChatFrame.xml:127_OnEnterPressed"]:1>
Can we get an option to remove the scrollbar?
I found code from SneekeeMods that would remove scrollbars enmasse.
so I roughed up a module for Prat that would remove the scrollbars when it's enabled and just say "reload the ui" when it's disabled. It isn't elegant, but it is 2a and was curious on how the modules are put together. It worked and I have got Prat hiding the scrollbars.
When/If you get around to making this module official, here is the LUA for it.
FYI channel name replacement isn't working. I.E. it always types out "guild" or "trade - city" instead of the abbrieviated versions ("G" or "2")
In reply to Azarias59:
What language are you playing in (so I can test it)? Its working for me in English.
I getting this error after updating
67x Interface/AddOns/Prat-3.0-3.9.10/addon/locales.lua:69: Locale key Shows debug information to help resolve bugs. is not provided.
[string "=[C]"]: in function `error'
[string "@Interface/AddOns/Prat-3.0-3.9.10/addon/locales.lua"]:69: in function <Interface/AddOns/Prat-3.0/addon/locales.lua:67>
[string "@Interface/AddOns/Prat-3.0-3.9.10/modules/DebugModules.lua"]:259: in function `GetDescription'
[string "@Interface/AddOns/Prat-3.0-3.9.10/addon/options.lua"]:555: in function `member'
[string "@Interface/AddOns/HandyNotes/Libs/AceConfig-3.0-3/AceConfigDialog-3.0-86/AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua"]:215: in function <...nfig-3.0/AceConfigDialog-3.0/AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua:164>
[string "@Interface/AddOns/HandyNotes/Libs/AceConfig-3.0-3/AceConfigDialog-3.0-86/AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua"]:514: in function <...nfig-3.0/AceConfigDialog-3.0/AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua:495>
[string "=[C]"]: ?
[string "@Interface/AddOns/BattleGroundEnemies/Libs/AceGUI-3.0-41/AceGUI-3.0.lua"]:66: in function <...s/BattleGroundEnemies/Libs/AceGUI-3.0/AceGUI-3.0.lua:64>
[string "@Interface/AddOns/BattleGroundEnemies/Libs/AceGUI-3.0-41/AceGUI-3.0.lua"]:300: in function `Fire'
[string "@Interface/AddOns/BattleGroundEnemies/Libs/AceGUI-3.0-41/widgets/AceGUIWidget-DropDown.lua"]:358: in function <...es/Libs/AceGUI-3.0/widgets/AceGUIWidget-DropDown.lua:356>
In reply to akulov_:
Fixed in the newest release.
Hi, would love to see an edit box text color option, maybe it exists and I am just missing it. Thanks for all the hard work!
How do you make it so your chat background is black? mine is grey by default and fades out after 4-5 seconds. It's annoying af. I want it so it never fades out. When I disable such option in settings, it only doesn't let the chat text fade. But I want the whole window to not fade. I beg of thee
In reply to knor6940:
Go to settings, and in Display Settings -> Frames and turn "Static Chatframe Alpha" on. If you can't find Frames make sure to turn the Frames module on
In reply to plusmouse:
now it's always transparent, even if I hover over. It says it matches the transparency settings, which must be changed, but I can't find that
In reply to knor6940:
That's in the Blizzard colour settings for the tab. There's a transparency slider.
Getting this error in combat:
1x [ADDON_ACTION_BLOCKED] AddOn 'Prat-3.0-3.9.9' tried to call the protected function 'MainMenuBar:SetPointBase()'.
[string "@Interface/AddOns/!BugGrabber/BugGrabber.lua"]:480: in function <Interface/AddOns/!BugGrabber/BugGrabber.lua:480>
[string "=[C]"]: in function `SetPointBase'
[string "@Interface/FrameXML/EditModeSystemTemplates.lua"]:62: in function `SetPoint'
[string "@Interface/FrameXML/EditModeManager.lua"]:624: in function `UpdateBottomActionBarPositions'
[string "@Interface/FrameXML/EditModeManager.lua"]:555: in function `UpdateActionBarLayout'
[string "@Interface/FrameXML/EditModeSystemTemplates.lua"]:655: in function `UpdateGridLayout'
[string "@Interface/FrameXML/ActionBar.lua"]:350: in function `UpdateVisibility'
[string "@Interface/FrameXML/ActionBar.lua"]:310: in function `Show'
[string "@Interface/FrameXML/PetActionBar.lua"]:75: in function <Interface/FrameXML/PetActionBar.lua:70>
[string "=[C]"]: ?
In reply to Moreorlessmaybe:
Do you have the Remember Positions option enabled in Display Settings -> Frames ?
In reply to plusmouse:
Nope. Turned it on now. Will let you know if it persists.
Is there no way to hide the Channel Tab buttons (General, Combat Log, etc) when mouse is not on the window? Its really ruining my clean vibe having dismembered floating tabs :P