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.
This addon is blocking Achievements from being shown in chat window even though the Hide Achievements button isnt selected
The chat crollbar refuses to fade out unless I man ually scroll it up and down a bit. Then it fades away.
Any idea how to get around that? Every time I log in on my main or alt, I notice the scrollbar floating there, and remember I have to manually activate it to make it fade away.
In reply to weltallica: That should have been fixed in 3.9.28. If you haven't updated to it please do so. If you are on 3.9.28 or newer and the scroll bar is still a problem please respond or open a Github issue.
In reply to plusmouse:
Solved!
I've always clicked the "Update All" option in Curse so I just assumed it was the latest version... but for some reason I had tagged this addon as "modified - don't update". When did I do that? And why? Bizarre!
Thanks so much for your patience.
Hey, in patch 10.1 they revamped the look of the chatbox buttons & scrollbar.... TBH I really don't like the new look. Can you add a function to this addon that restores the old buttons? :)
sometime if i do more than one whisper it will miss overlap the chat and will have issue not be able to read until I reload sometime
My editbox keeps defaulting to the bottom even though I have "Attach to... Top" selected. I toggle it back and forth and it fixes it until the next reload/login.
In reply to roweboy1974: I can't replicate the behaviour. Do you have anything else that might be affecting the editbox
In reply to plusmouse: Having the same problem, see above. (Replied again so the right person got the notification)
In reply to roweboy1974: I have this same problem. I'm running a handful of other mods, but interface/chat related it'd be SpartanUI, TitanPanel, and WIM.
how i can keep tab flashing in whisper from btag? before it was?
In reply to oxed: When does it stop flashing? I've tested with a self-whisper and it fades after a mouseover on the chat frame whether the tab is opened or not, and this behaviour hasn't changed in the last few releases (tested with those too).
does anyone know if it is possible to completely block chat messages if a filtered word is set? and not only will the filtered word be replaced or hidden, but the entire outgoing chat message will be blocked
this is broken in the recent patch, the frames are bugged, the scroll bar won't dissapear even when the option to show it is checked off.
If I may be so bold to request an itsy bitsy, teenie weenie very small addition. There once was an addon called Chat Timer, see here >> https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/chat-timer it has not been updated since 2016, but I cannot find a replacement for it. IT DOES still work however with errors. Could you paaaalease add this addons 'functionality' to Prat *puppydog eyes*, doesn't need tobe anything major just a simple small countdown timer till we can type again? Thank you so very much for continuing to update this addon.
In reply to bejeta7: Try: Interface -> Addons -> Prat -> Extra Stuff -> Filtering -> uncheck Filter Channel Notices
In reply to plusmouse:
Its a known blizzard bug. To reproduce - mouseover chat to fade it IN. Instantly /reload before it fades out. When UI appears again, chat will be hidden, but scroll wheel appears.
Can also easily reproduce by hiding the UI keybind. Make chat fade in, hide UI, give it some time for fade out to happen, then re-enable UI. Scroll is there.