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 Hothgor:
Display settings -> Tabs -> Set display mode -> uncheck general, combat log, whatever tab is bothering you
In reply to Zasz_:
There is no Tabs option in Display Settings. And this is from a fresh Prat installation....
Edit: found the module option, problem is now solved!!! Thank you very much :)
On WotLK, is there a way in Prat to adjust the ordering of the Global Channels (Trade / LFG / Local Defense / General) ?
I was previously able to drag them to the correct position (1-2-3-4) and lately I am unable to anymore.
Now that we can hide the background when hovering over the chat, is there an option to hide the scroll bar when hovering over the chat?
Is there a DF version of prat available currently?
never mind seems my curse client just didn't want to show me the updated version.Hi, there is a new error. ^.^
The addon is blocked by Blizzard UI when switching to a new map.
When I try to use a skill, an error message appears, it doesn't work because of Prat :
"Prat 3.0 has been blocked from an action only available to the Blizzard UI.
You can disable this addon and reload the UI."
In reply to bahtiblack:
Do you have the Remember Positions option enabled in Display Settings -> Frames ?
In reply to plusmouse:
I don't remember, I'll check when I enter the game tonight.
Same error message for Mapster.:
In reply to plusmouse:
I couldn't find the setting option you mentioned?
In reply to bahtiblack:
Probably means you have that module turned off (which eliminates it as a possibility for causing the error). Do you have ChatTabs, Editbox or the Frames modules enabed?
I am getting this error:
Date: 2022-11-06 23:11:45
ID: 20
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: Interface/AddOns/Prat-3.0/modules/ChatTabs.lua line 634:
attempt to call method 'GetHighlightTexture' (a nil value)
Debug:
[string "=[C]"]: GetHighlightTexture()
[string "@Interface/AddOns/Prat-3.0/modules/ChatTabs.lua"]:634:
Interface/AddOns/Prat-3.0/modules/ChatTabs.lua:631
[string "=(tail call)"]: ?
[string "=[C]"]: FCF_StartAlertFlash()
[string "@Interface/AddOns/Prat-3.0/addon/addon.lua"]:729:
Interface/AddOns/Prat-3.0/addon/addon.lua:613
[string "=(tail call)"]: ?
[string "@Interface/FrameXML/ChatFrame.lua"]:3145: ChatFrame_OnEvent()
[string "*FloatingChatFrame.xml:525_OnEvent"]:1:
[string "*FloatingChatFrame.xml:525_OnEvent"]:1
Locals:
AddOns:
In reply to GrimNotepad:
Fixed in the newest version
works nice.. except you cant change the background to darker
fixed it .. ty to post below
Thanks!
I went back to 3.9.4 for now. To keep your settings and not have it revert the opacity, you can go to /prat>Extra Stuff>Memory and check the box that says "Load Settings Automatically"
A new update - but just gives me more problems. Now it's impossible to change background colour, giving that disgusting seethrough (whatever the fuck its called in eng) standard from blizzard, making it hard to read text. Before it just reset everytime but now i cant even change it at all.
In reply to rfzm:
The background is now a combination of the colour/transparency from Blizzard (set in the Blizzard background settings for the chat) and the transparency set in the Prat -> Frames settings - so if you set both of them to the right values it should show up how you want it.
To discuss reworking the alpha settings see https://github.com/Legacy-of-Sylvanaar/prat-3-0/issues/51.
I keep my chat in the upper right hand of the screen. In order to get the chatbox there part of the green edit box needs to be off the screen. When I reload it moves the chatbox so that the whole edit box is on the screen.
I agree!
Just wanted to say a massive thanks for continuing the good work of Sylvanaar.