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.
would love the ability to have the entire frame, INCLUDING channel tabs, fade to 0 alpha. currently i have been able to set the chat frame itself to fade out but the channel tabs i haven't found an option to fade out completely.
thanks for the timely updates btw. 4.0 was quite the whirlwind :D
thank you as well for your work to provide such a wonderful chat frame UI!!!
First, is there a way to resize the frame by dragging the edges? I seem to recall being able to do this in older prior versions. I want to put the chat frame in the bottom left corner with a preset minimum height/width that matches my overall generall screen layout. But in times where I want to read a lot of text without having to scroll, I want to be able to click the top edge of the chat frame and drag it up to expand the window. Then when I'm done, click it and shrink it back down. Seems like I used to be able to do this before.
Next, maybe this is a bliz thing (becaus I've seen a similar problem with Docking Station)... With screen clamping turned on, when I drag the chat window to the bottom left, it seems to extend one pixel past the edge of the screen. It's a very minor thing but just thought I'd mention it.
Basically, there is a 'dead zone' of space on the edges of my screen where I cannot place my chatbox. I used to have it down in the utmost lower lefthand corner of my screen with virtually no space between the chatbox and the edge, however with the last version or two there is about a half inch on the left and bottom edges that the window will not move into at all, despite being unlocked.
I disabled all other addons, just in case, and tried to move it again, but unfortunately it just won't budge. I can move it anywhere else on my screen, except the half-inch around the edge on any side. I have all of the buttons disabled/hidden as I like a clean look to my UI, but with this unusable 'dead zone' I either have to shrink the rest of my UI to fit or scoot everything over to the right, because it covers up a portion of my chat window - even shrunk down to the smallest possible size.
Is this a bug, or is there a new setting I need to fix to get rid of this deadzone? I tried to look, but couldn't find anything...
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Debug:
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[C]: ipairs()
..\FrameXML\UnitPopup.lua:502: UnitPopup_HideButtons()
..\FrameXML\UnitPopup.lua:219: UnitPopup_ShowMenu()
Perl_Party\Perl_Party.lua:2651: initFunction()
..\FrameXML\UIDropDownMenu.lua:69: UIDropDownMenu_Initialize()
Perl_Party\Perl_Party.lua:2646: Perl_PartyDropDown_OnLoad()
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http://www.imagebanana.com/view/xs7pvs2h/WoWScrnShot_101710_130526.jpg
with none and random battle.net colours. Works normally when whispering other Persons.
If you need more detail feel free to ask.
Bye