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.
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lucifercatnip Owner
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humfras Author
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MrFIXlT Author
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MysticalOS Author
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plusmouse Author
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SunnySunflow Translator
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Posted Feb 28, 2013It appears the AceTimer library needs updating.
FrameXML\ContainerFrame.lua:591: attempt to perform arithmetic on a nil value
FrameXML\ContainerFrame.lua:591: in function <FrameXML\ContainerFrame.lua:585>
<in C code>
Titan-5.1.13.50100\TitanMovable.lua:351: in function "TitanMovableFrame_MoveFrames"
Titan-5.1.13.50100\TitanMovable.lua:527: in function "TitanPanel_AdjustFrames"
Titan-5.1.13.50100\TitanMovable.lua:542: in function "func"
Prat-3.0-3.5.4_Libraries-3.5.4\AceTimer-3.0\AceTimer-3.0-15.lua:41: in function <Prat-3.0_Libraries\AceTimer-3.0\AceTimer-3.0.lua:36>
Locals:
= <func> @FrameXML\ContainerFrame.lua:585
= <func> @Postal\Libs\..\AceHook-3.0.lua:100
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Posted Feb 12, 2013As others have said, is there any way to change the Chat Frame Strata? I'm using ElvUI but dislike their chat mod and would like to use Prat 3.0 instead, but it keeps falling behind ElvUI's chat backgrounds and with ElvUI and Prat both not having strata options, I am losing my gourd.
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Posted Feb 16, 2013i'm getting this too. gonna revert to prior release for now i guess.
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Posted Feb 10, 2013After update I get a:
Date: 2013-02-10 21:25:01
ID: 1
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\Prat-3.0\modules\ChannelSticky.lua line 430:
attempt to index local 'chan' (a nil value)
Debug:
Prat-3.0\modules\ChannelSticky.lua:430: BuildChannelList()
Prat-3.0\modules\ChannelSticky.lua:276: OnModuleEnable()
Prat-3.0\addon\modules.lua:182:
Prat-3.0\addon\modules.lua:174
(tail call): ?
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Posted Feb 10, 2013Any word on the return of Smart Group? I still don't understand why it was removed. Other than not being able to determine Instance_Chat versus Raid, it still works. I have it used in several macros.
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Posted Feb 7, 2013Does this addon allow messaging to MSBT? Like.. when someone would say my chars name, it would broadcast to MSBT Messages. Currently Chatter isnt functioning in the new version with this, and im pretty anal about not having [ ]s around realid names, not just the char theyre on, thanks!
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Posted Jan 26, 2013Hi..
Im using prat, and when i type the symbol "?" in the note, the addon "eats" the last word you typed, any idea to fix this? I have the same problem in my 2 notes and the PC does not happen...
THanks.
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Posted Jan 25, 2013Hi,
Can I edit the chat tabs by font, color and background opacity?
Not the chat text just the tab names.
I've renamed the tabs but would like to edit the visual.
Thanks.
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Posted Jan 24, 2013Been scrolling through the comments trying to find the answer to this with little or no success. How often does the ChatLog feature of Prat save it's data to the text file?
Is it when the buffer is full, or is it at certain intervals? Can't seem to find any information on it.
Thanks!
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Posted Feb 10, 2013Addons are extremely limited in how they can actually write any data. They can only write to .lua files in your WTF folder and the formatting of that is controlled.
Prat's ChatLog module is simply something that auto enables the game's built in logging feature.
That being said, Prat has no control over when the chat is sent to the log. Afaik, the game writes to WoWChatLog.txt (and all other log files) periodically as it gets data to write (it may or may not buffer these writes), at character logout, and at game exit.
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Posted Jan 20, 2013Can a sound module be added for /instance please?
So used to hearing pings etc for other channels, I miss LFR and /i
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Posted Jan 18, 2013Hi, I am not sure what I am not putting on but in my chat box, I do not see the little name has set star on name, how do I fix this?
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Posted Jan 16, 2013Is there a custom chat for channelsticky? Seems to have been broken for a while.
Also pet battle combat bar keeps popping up whenever I do a battle, would rather that stayed away but haven't seen if it currently supports it
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Posted Jan 12, 2013My memory usage shot up like crazy after installing Prat. Going back to Minimalist to shorten my channel names...that's the ONLY feature I needed from Prat, this mod is overkill. Minimalist is also overkill, since I've found good mods to do everything but the chat shortening/scrolling, but it's still much better than Prat.
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Posted Jan 10, 2013I am trying to unstall Prat however the chat settigs remain after deleting this addon. How do you restore the original chat settings?
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Posted Jan 9, 2013Since 5.1 I have problem. Sometimes messages don't appear in the chat frame. Furtunately I have another addon that shows messages in chosen channels also as a raid warning. So at least there I can see what has been written, if I pay attention to the "raid warning".
This is quite annoying. It seems to appear randomly by chance. Couldn't make out any pattern of the bug.
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Posted Jan 7, 2013smartarse, Mr obvious, you seem like a very angry person perhaps you should seek a more relaxing hobby, and before you fire back anymore names , name calling is the last resort of the weak minded. Next you will be asking me if im mad bro , or correcting my spelling. Just find a new addon and move on.
please continue with you work sylv , many of us appreciate your hard work and the addon itself.
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Posted Jan 6, 2013The author did reply in private, now I don't know here or either on wowace, smartarse.
And as for this addon being "free" and that I can choose to use it or not, I'm aware of it mr obvious. As of now I couldn't care less for this addon or the failed author my mere point was to show just what a jerk he comes out replying in such arrogant manners and erasing people's post (but then again, what do you expect from a swed)
There are other addons a new, better ones, are created each day - from creators that give a damn!
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Posted Jan 6, 2013I doubt very seriously it was the author that posted , as I have delt with im for years and he almost never responds in any form to anything posted either here or curseforge , go ahead and scroll back through the 192 pages of comments I doubt you will find even a pages worth of responses from him.
That being said post your errors , suggestions , requests , etc and he will reveiw them or not , add them or not , fix them or not.
You need to remember these people (authors) do this for free in most cases and like it or not this is not what pays the bills. Your always free to stop using any addon that you dont like or issnt updated or if you rolled a dice and its number came up.
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Posted Jan 4, 2013There was a post from a user explaining how he contact the project manage about the errors he was recieving just to get an replying saying "why even bother updating because one a single code error" and now I see that post was removed, I'm guessing either by curse admins or the project manager himself, if that's the case he is indeed a dick. - If you can't manage the truth being out there then I suggest you errase yourself. As for not bothering updating this addon WHICH IN FACT IS AFFECTING THOUSANDS OF WoW USERS then indeed go errase yourself!