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.
Any way to make the timestamp more accurrate with more digits? For example, instead of [02:15:59] can you make it [02:15:59.XX] for added decimal points for the seconds
I'm having a slight issue with not being able to configure the Global Channels. The Chat and Other Categories are the only ones that are "clickable". Is there a fix for this?
Have you enabled the modules?
I'm having problems with Prat currently interfering with the pet battle interface. Once I disable Prat, I can actually battle. If Prat is enabled, all I can do is pass until all my pets die.
Hi!
Used to use this addon when I played before, and when I came back I wanted to use it again. But I am unable to get the names in chat to show up as the persons class. I have selected it in the options as well as uninstalling and reinstalling the addon. Any help would be super helpful! Thanks!
When using Prat, I cant choose the spoken language. If I choose Darnassian from the chat options, it wont change it, it stays in common.
Appears it got turned off. Turning it on corrected the problem
Chat history is no longer working. Chat is not remembered between logins.
Are you sure you didn't disable the addon Prat_HighCpuUsageModules (If you have it). It works just fine for me.
So, prat doesn't have a save frame position feauture. Chatter does, though there are feature trade-offs between the two addons. I am always open to someone converting this feature from Chatter and adding it to Prat too
Problem : Everytime i switch characters, (yes they each have a profile, some use default on Prat 3.0) my chat box where i type goes from where i have set it (top of the chat window) to be hidden off screen (on bottom) until i swap the profile to something different and then back to the one i use, (load in on) its super annoying, can you help me before i switch to a different chat addon?
I'll add it in today I think. It is in the alpha build. In the Frames module, just turn on the "Remember Position" option. It will reset all your frame positions, but then it will remember wherever you put them. That is one bit of pain I didn't remove. So, just remember it will reset them once and you will have to place them again.
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I switched to prat today from chatter as it seems to fall mor eand more behind.
Bsically I was looking for an feature, but I could not find any addon being able of doing so. Would it be possible to have a feature which scans incmming messages in selected channels for specific words or regular expressions and highlight the match as well as optionally play a sound ?
One use case would be to "listen" for somebody to announce the resence of a specific (real) rare.
But anyway: Geat Addon !
Sorry for the slow reply. There is the custom filters module that does all sorts of things like this. You should check it out. There was once a blog on here with a post on how to use it. I don't know where that went.
So, thats the group number they are in. I guess its in the playernames module. "Show Group".
How do you remove the number beside the server name when they type in chat ex. PlayerName-Server:2??
hey i was wondering if you had a way of filtering out the "talent change" garbage that always pops up when you swap spec. its really annoying, its like a current chat clear.
It is not likely, but you can try. Turn on the events module, look at the event name, then see if if you can filter it in CustomFilters. I'm pretty sure you can't, but CustomFilters is fun to learn anyways, you can do so many fun things with it.