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.
a) realid classcolouring, is this already implemented ? at Playernames I can just choose between no and randoms colour.
b) when I want to say the same thing in more than one channel, I normally just press alt+arrow (to copy the last thing I said) and then change the number/letter of the channel but since the patch when I use prat the first word will be erase if I switch the channel in that way. Works if you press the space-key before.
c) when I'd like to whisper a player by right-clicking on his name and the choose whisper, the whisper-line doesn't open. If I press Enter, I can whisper to the correct person.
everything a little bit annoying^^
And a) is something I (and some more guys here) wanted most.^^ The colouring of the name in realid-whispers in their current classcolours is possible since an other mod does it. Unfortunately don't know which one.
If I downgrade to version .23 then everything works correctly, dead keys and windowed mode. If I upgrate it it shows the problems.
I'll try and identify which module specifically is causing it today; I doubt it was specifically r548 as I usually go a week or so between update checks, so it was probably something after r526. I'll repost if I can identify it.
What happens when you type the double-bracket followed by a letter is, it gives the best guess of the item you want, but everything you haven't typed yet is greyed (like it's been highlighted) and the cursor doesn't move from the spot in the word you've typed to. Type another letter and it changes the greyed out word to match it's best guess, repeat per keystroke.
What I'm getting is, I hit R and instead of giving me "Rondel" with the cursor after the R and the "ondel" part highlighted, it just jumps to the end of the word, with no highlighting, and any characters typed get added to the end of the word.
I went in and told Prat to not load any modules, and with just the base addon structure and no modules loaded (not "disabled", but actually not loaded) I was still experiencing the problem. I'm going to try reverting to .23 like bsolar did and see if that fixes it.
Commit r536 is the one that broke it. I'm betting that bsolar could drop back to r535 and his problem would go away as well.
For reference, your note on r536 was "update the chatedit parsetext hook code to handle the new funkyness".
Posting this here because this behavior stops as soon as I disable Prat, and it occurs with only Ludwig and Prat enabled. Any suggestions on what might cause that would be great.
Popupmessage and
Chat Bubble Coloring And Formatting
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Since the update 3.3.5, I can use Prat only at 10% of his capacities. (Only for Copy/Cut)
Every time I get connected I have this LUA error :
Date: 2010-08-06 00:50:27
ID: 1
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\Prat-3.0\modules\Editbox.lua line 471:
attempt to index global 'ChatFrameEditBox' (a nil value)
Debug:
(tail call): ?
Prat-3.0\addon\modules.lua:332: LoadModules()
Prat-3.0\addon\addon.lua:226:
Prat-3.0\addon\addon.lua:183
(tail call): ?
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:9:
[string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:5
(tail call): ?
Ace3\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:510: InitializeAddon()
Ace3\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:622:
Ace3\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:615
I've Uninstall an re-install Prat several times without results. If there is someone how have an idea !!
Thx