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 want to read down, not up.
Today I ran into a problem though. When I try to use an addon that uses the API SendChatMessage. It double posts if Prat is enabled.
For example if it has the line...
SendChatMessage("Hello Brendon!", "WHISPER", nil, "Brenden");
the message Hello Brendon! is whispered to Brendon as a PT.
However, if Prat is enabled, the line executes twice. Is there a module or something in Prat that I can disable, or a fix that you can do on your side, so that I can use both addons?
I should note that running /scropt SendChatMessage("Hello Brendon!", "WHISPER", nil, "Brenden"); from within the game works fine. It is only when the call is made from an addon that the problem presents itself if Prat is also running.
I was wondering if this mod has a feature in it to filter out 'keywords' from general or trade channels? For example, if someone says in general, "LFM VOA" or "LF Scribe" that if I had the keywords, "VOA or Scribe" listed it would alert me somehow. There use to be a mod like this called trinity chat, but it died out.
The photos listed above have a filter option and was hoping this feature would do the trick. If not, would you or anyone else have an idea what mod would allow of keyword filter alerts? Thanks so much!
http://www.wowace.com/projects/prat-3-0/files/450-r210/ is the official link to the latest version at the moment
One feature request though: could Prat handle chat flags (CHAT_FLAG_AFK, CHAT_FLAG_DND and so on) like pChat does?
The cause of my suggestion is ru realms, where localization is so great that short "<DND>" turns into half-line "<Не беспокоить>".
http://www.wowace.com/projects/prat-3-0/files/450-r210/ is the official link to the latest version at the moment
attempt to index local 'dropdownFrame' (a nil value)
Debug:
[C]: ?
Prat-3.0\modules\CopyChat.lua:317: CopyLineFromPlayerlink()
Prat-3.0\modules\CopyChat.lua:238: func()
..\FrameXML\UIDropDownMenu.lua:561: UIDropDownMenuButton_OnClick()
[string "*:OnClick"]:1:
[string "*:OnClick"]:1
When i try to copy text
Date: 2009-01-26 23:00:33
ID: 1
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\Prat-3.0\modules\CopyChat.lua line 317:
attempt to index local 'dropdownFrame' (a nil value)
Debug:
(tail call): ?
[C]: ?
Prat-3.0\modules\CopyChat.lua:317: CopyLineFromPlayerlink()
Prat-3.0\modules\CopyChat.lua:238: func()
..\FrameXML\UIDropDownMenu.lua:561: UIDropDownMenuButton_OnClick()
[string "*:OnClick"]:1:
[string "*:OnClick"]:1
But, the history thing in the left conor of the chat, is it possible to disable that or something?
Its kinda annoying when the chat is faded, and the only thing that is vissible is the button.. grr! :)
Otherwise, I love this addon!
[2009/01/25 19:22:37-193-x1]: Prat-3.0-3.0.1 \modules\CopyChat.lua:317: attempt to index local 'dropdownFrame' (a nil value)
Prat-3.0-3.0.1 \modules\CopyChat.lua:238: in function `func'
Interface\FrameXML\UIDropDownMenu.lua:561: in function `UIDropDownMenuButton_OnClick':
<string>:"*:OnClick":1: in function <[string "*:OnClick"]:1>
Had other problems with another addon 'Armoury Quick Link' that gave similar errors. Guess Blizzard changed something in dropdownframes/menus
open up Prat\addon\options.lua and go to line 323 change:
self:RegisterChatCommand(l.prat, function() ToggleOptionsWindow() end)
to:
self:RegisterChatCommand(L.prat, function() ToggleOptionsWindow() end)
--
everything works normally again :)
Same here n00by, i just stopped worrying about the scroll buttons, got used to it now heh.
But i have a small problem, hope you can help me or fix it ;)
I cant move the ChatButtons and they are very strange...
I have 3 Chat Frames and in the "General" frame the buttons are left outside from it (thats ok) in the "CombatLog" frame the buttons was right outside the frame (why not left?) and on my "whisper" window it was right inside the chatframe (why this?)!
Could you help me, please? :)
And sorry for my very bad english.
Greetings