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.
In reply to lucifercatnip:
Thank you for doing this! I know from experience there are a lot of good developers playing WoW. Prat will get a good home, I'm sure.
In reply to lucifercatnip:
Wow! I'm getting tears reading this, i'm just going to say - THANK YOU! Bless you!
In reply to lucifercatnip:
Great news. Thank you!
i have a message from him back in 2017 idk if i wanna delete it now ;(
RIP to Sylvannar.
One of the features about this addon that I like is character names being put into the font color of the class they are. I've noticed that when my own name is typed by me or anyone else, it shows up in green no matter what instead of whichever class I'm playing at that time. Is there a way to change it so it doesn't show up in green and follows the class coloring?
In reply to Hanover1023:
One of the modules tracks mentions of your own name. If you disable that, it will stop.
My most heartfelt condolences to Jon's family and friends, may he rest in peace.
@MrFIXIT
Would it be possible to add advanced regex search pattern into CustomFilters? For now as far as i see its not supporting operators like 'or | ' ? due to default lua i believe?
This news about Sylvanaar struck me when i came to check here. May he rest in peace, my condolences to his family & friends.
Hello, sad to hear that the addon developer of this addon has past away. Been using this addon for years. I don't know if this project will continue with a new developer but even if it does not I still got many good years of use out it.
Minor fix for chat bubble coloring not including the bubble callout (tail) and buttons fix (2021/06/09)
Prat-3.9.1-6-f65d85e-bc.zip
Source at the main repo https://github.com/sylvanaar/prat-3-0/pull/220
Also reminder that you can feed this link https://github.com/Road-block/prat-3-0/releases/latest
to WowUp or Ajour Install from URL to get automatic updates to any fixes pushed.
In reply to MrFIXlT:
Thanks!
In reply to MrFIXlT:
thanks for the fix, but the buttons on the left side of the chatbox look somehow awkward compare to the default ones, except for that everything works fine.
NEVER MIND, I solved it by replacing buttons.lua with the old version
In reply to nanhaitwitch:
Prat-3.0-3.9.1-5-571c1f6-bc.zip with buttons change.
In reply to MrFIXlT:
I found that if you mouseover the chatbox during combat, you will get a warning like this "Action Failed because of Add-on". I'm not so sure if prat has anything to do with this.
In reply to MrFIXlT:
Thank you so much for this! Are you taking over this app development? RIP Sylvanaar.
In reply to MrFIXlT:
Thank you so much for this! Are you taking over this app development? RIP Sylvanaar.
In reply to MrFIXlT:
Thank you so much for this! Are you taking over this app development? RIP Sylvanaar.
In reply to MrFIXlT:
Hello i tried to put the link into WoWUp but i get this error:
In reply to ScroolooseUK:
Yeah I'm sorry, I haven't packaged the fixed Prat for Classic Era just for Burning Crusade Classic.
The package should still work if you install it manually but I figured people can still use the official classic versions and do not need the BCC fixes.
I'll add a classic package to the release for convenience.