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.
Thanks for catching that. I am going to make sure I have this fixed everywhere
Thanks, I'll add in your fix
To fix chat fading:
1) Open the file \Prat-3.0\modules\Fading.lua
2) Scroll to the very bottom where you see Core Functions
3) Add the following line of code according to the picture:
cf:SetTimeVisible(600000)
For some reason, SetFading() is not working as intended to disable the fading (maybe on Blizzard's end?). This hack instead allows the text to fade after ~7 days :)
Thank you. I'll give it a try and respond here with how it works.
The only issue I am having with Prat now is that I can no longer turn off the Fade. As an RP'er, I like to keep the chat text there. No Fade at all. The old workaround of turning Chat Frame Apha to 0 no longer works.
Slight issue with delay motd. If you have guild chat set to any window other than the main one (ChatFrame1) the delayed motd is printed to both frame 1 and whatever chat window has guild chat.
A tiny workaround I used is I placed "ChatFrame3:UnregisterEvent("GUILD_MOTD")" right before the delay function reregisters frame 1 so that the delayed motd is only printed to frame 1 (line 489 of the history module).
To clarify, I have three windows: "Info" which is all the system messages, loot spam, xp, and any other info option; "Chat" which displays everything to do with chat (channels, say, guild, etc); "Main" which is frame 1, where all the npc chat/emotes, dbm, addon, and other various game spam is kept. Since the scrollback option doesn't have specific frame settings, the motd will be buried regardless of what window it comes out on. I like the motd separate from the chat window, but if you want to fix the multiple window delay print and then keep the motd on whatever frame has the guild registered on it, I'm fine with that too.
The fade module isn't working, it fades the text regardlessly.
I'm having the same problem, chat is fading even though the boxes are unticked.
I am having the same problem. For now I've settled to increasing the fading time all the way to max.
yes same problem
Waiting for 6.0.2 Version Strange how this is an overlooked Addon by most, but it has become a very helpful addon in the past 2 yrs.
Seems ok in 6.0 tho the edit box font is kinda small and cant be changed.
How do change the edit box size? Is it the tile size option?
remote gulid chat doesn't show icon
When a guild mate is logged in using the Mobile Armory app's Remote Guild Chat feature, the expected icon doesn't show up in their chat lines.
This addon still disables the option to right click report players. It's annoying to not have the feature to report shit
Using the editbox module, I can no longer click to open the editbox for typing. That is important to do as certain situations it is the only means ot type in chat.
Is there a way to click to enable the editbox without disabling that module?
As European player it bugs out when we crossrealm with Russian players.
When they write it only comes empty lines, Its something with their names? Beacuse only way for me to read what they say is to press the "copy text". Even if they only write in plain english
+1
However pls fix the right click option to report ppl for spam/cheating etc. This is an addon related error according to bliz where the option simply disapears if u dont click the player right away. On a crowded server u have to scroll up to be able to right click player names and then the option simply isnt there anymore. Hope you can get a fix on this soon. Please say something.
The "nil history" error is when you have command history enabled, but for some reason, the SavedVariable file containing your history was deleted. Disable all the history settings in Prat, /reload, then reenable history, and /reload again.