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)
- Machine learning 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.
I set the minimum and maximum window size to the same value, but this doesn't seem to help.
I also don't see anything in the options to help besides that.
Thanks!
First off, this is a lovely addon and I love the abundance of features. I have one major problem though. For as long as I've had this addon I have been unable to resize the windows. I go to the options/frames and set minimum/maximum height and width, but no matter what I set them to, the chat window never changes size. Please help.
i really love prat, but i have a little problem with it.
We (some people of my guild, and some of other guilds) are using an addon, which give us certain functions for displaying us ... a communication channel and so on.
The problem is, if prat is running i cant use the links send over this privat channel, and i also see system messages of the addon "crypted".
If i disable prat everything looks fine. No "crypted" messages, links of items are working etc.
I thought the "GEM Compatibility" might be a reason for it. But neither enabling or disabling changes anything.
I'm modifing the addon on my own ... slyvanaar do you might have any clue why i only get with prat running "crypted" messages?
Thanks SOO much for this mod - one of my favorite mods.
Since the latest 3.2b1, I am getting this error whenever I am in a city and someone posts something to the trade channel :
Interface\Addons\Prat-3.0\modules\Sounds.lua:556: attempt to index local 'cname' (a number value).
I can disable the sounds module as a temp fix but really love the sounds for various functions. Thanks!
Look for:
["customlist"] = {
["TRADE"] = "Chime",
["GENERAL"] = "Heart",
},
if you see a number in the list remove it
- Alternative Buttons module
- Chat text can flow around buttons when using new buttons module
- Keybind to cycle through the docked chatframes (Try binding ctrl-tab)
- Justification of the combat log
- Formatting of channel notifications
- Per-filter sink outputs in customfilters
- Allow incoming/outgoing whispers to be colored differently
- Per-chanel sound settings
Try a couple things.
1) Enable the OriginalButtons module, and try out its options
2) Enable the Keybindings module, and bind ctrl-tab to Cycle Chat Tabs
3) Open your chat options (right click the chat tab), and try to set outgoing whispers to a different color than incoming.
The channel notifications change was
"#showtooltip Focus Magic
/stopcasting
/cast Focus Magic
/tt You now have Focus Magic!"
/tt "You now have focus magic!"
to
/script SendChatMessage("You now have focus magic!", "WHISPER", nil, UnitName("target"))
- Another button module (Actually its the button module from Prat 2.0)
- Text alignment on combat log
- Copychat button hide/show on combat log]
- Various improvements to customfilters
- Custom channel sounds
- Text reflow around buttons on the chatframe (Prat 2.0 feature). At first this will only be available when using 2 column chatframes.
Each time I log on, the buttons re-appear in the chat module. I've opened up the /prat settings and noticed the buttons option grayed out. When I open the modules it shows the button module as enabled. Disabling and re-enabling the module causes it to behave correctly. Any idea on what could be preventing the module from loading originally?
Thanks.