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: I'm having the same issue, I clicked "save settings" after getting everything set up on one character, and then go onto an Alt and clicked on "load settings" and nothing happens, I even tried a /reload to see if it would do anything and nothing (I've even tried ticking the "load settings automatically" option as well and that does not seem to do anything either)..
Unless I'm missunderstanding how the memory module is supposed to work fully (is it supposed to create any chat tabs as well if they are missing from an alt that are saved into the module? because if it's supposed to, it definitely is not doing so at this time)
In reply to plusmouse: Sorry for the late response, yes. Pretty much the same things JourneyOver stated. I also used to use the "load settings automatically" until one day in SL I realized I hadn't seen trade chat in a while and noticed the auto setting broke what channels I was apart of and had to redo all of my chat settings. So when I was going for heritage armor I would I would manually load the settings for each new character I was making.
I'm probably just be missing a setting for this somewhere, but is there a way to change the font size for text in the edit box? If I set my font size to 10 for all my chat windows, the edit box text seems to stay at 12 it looks a little odd.
ps: thanks for maintaining a great addon, I've been using it for longer than I've used any other addon
hi, I think there is a small bug with the new patch, There is a new feature when wow chat detects that someone sent you an inappropriate message, it hides the message and shows you a link to view this chat, right now click on that link is not working
In reply to maxstriker: Came here to report this as well. The link to view pops up, but it doesn't work with Prat.
In reply to maxstriker: Hi. Do you have an example message which I use to test with?
In reply to plusmouse: Depending on what the game censors, a message appears indicating that the message you received by whisper is potentially inappropriate, and there is a yellow message where you must press to see it, however when you try it it does not work
Hi again, I've found a potential workaround to get the message to display and added it to the latest alpha build. https://legacy.curseforge.com/wow/addons/prat-3-0/files/4771779
In reply to plusmouse: I've pushed a new fix. Its difficult to test, but hopefully this one will work.
In reply to plusmouse:
I'm using the latest version and can't get the message to show, clicking the link won't do anything.
I have a minor enhancement request: Filter out world ping messages in chat (new to patch 10.1.7) from PopupMessage's finding of your own name. As it stands, I have to disable the world ping chat messages in order to not be notified of every single world ping I personally send and that's unfortunate because I'd really like to keep them to see what others do.
In reply to TheCheat54: The latest alpha (available soon) will have this.
Hi, im using the "change font color on message", but is it possible to not change the font for the current open tab I have?
I am encountering an issue that I've narrowed down to a couple Prat features. When I have channel names being replaced in Prat, it does not allow me to link items in those channels. So, for instance, if I have the trade channel replacing with [2.Trade], it will not allow me to see my messages only when an item is linked.
So if I typed "LF [linked item]", the message will not show. If I typed just text, it will show. If I change the replace text to just [2] rather than [2.Trade], it will work all around. I could have sworn these renames were the default, but maybe I could have changed them, but I guess my question is, should this work or is this a bug? Is there a way to keep those channel names being replaced that way and fix the issue?
In reply to Sunni011: That would be a bug. The simplest fix would be to turn off channel name replacing on the trade channel by unticking the "Replace" checkbox. I've tried messing with the whisper channel name substitutions, but was unable to replicate the buggy behaviour.
In reply to plusmouse: Gotcha. Yeah, this is what I have been doing for the time being but was curious if others were experiencing it. So are you seeing the same thing with trade chat when you replace past just [2]?
In reply to Sunni011: Tried doing the [2.Trade] replacement, I could still post links.
In reply to plusmouse: Idk if you misunderstood me, but that is what I originally said I was trying to use as a replacement and it would not work. Ill attached a SS just for reference:
https://gyazo.com/db37b99321dcbdb4fe8ef88b60e57c06
You can see in this SS I can type with [2] and [2.Trade] without links. Then when I just use [2] with a link, it will work. Then when I use [2.Trade] and try to link something (I know you cannot see it but I typed it and it just didn't show up), it will not show the message. Now I am 99% sure these messages with links that I cannot see are still being posted to the channel as I had someone reply to it once, but I just can't see what I typed on my end, which is very frustrating. So, TLDR, just [2] will work with anything, [2.Trade] will show me my message when they're just plain text, but will not with links, but they're still being sent I'm almost positive, that's what my issue is. I know I can turn the replacement off, or change it back to just [2], but yea I was curious if it was a common bug and other ppl were experiencing it/it was repeatable for ppl other than me.
Could you encorporate this addon into Prat as a module? It is very useful and chat related. Not maintained anymore, but still works fine https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/spamagemeters
In reply to GregoryWW: Can't just copy the code from that addon as its "All Right Reserved", so it would need to be rewritten to include it in Prat.