Prat 3.0

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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.

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Kaustos
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Posted Apr 29, 2009
Every time I create a 4th window now since 3.1 it constantly spams with "cl-event" about 10 times a second if I'm around anything going on (dalaran or something). If I'm out alone away from everything it doesnt do it.. I've deleted/renamed the window but its always does it and only in that last window.

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Posted Apr 29, 2009
there is an option from blizzard for the chat windows to make them non-interactive, did you check if they are set to that? right click the chat tab, there is an option "make noninteractive/make interactive"

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Posted Apr 29, 2009
I had that problem, but it turned out to be SpamMeNot interfering

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Posted Apr 28, 2009
Anybody else have a problem where they can't click other players in their chat log? I can't click their names or any items linked. It's rather annoying.

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Posted Apr 27, 2009
Remember this?

"r79 | sylvanaar | 2008-10-29 05:30:19 +0000 (Wed, 29 Oct 2008) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/modules/Paragraph.lua
untested change to allow justification on the combat log frame."

;-)

In the meantime, I created the following which lets you choose any alignment for the combat log (left, right, center):

http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/aligncombatlog.aspx

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Posted Apr 25, 2009
Before WOTLK, maybe a few months before the patch, there was an option to change the individual chat channel colours. Specifically, to change the colour of incoming and outgoing whispers individually. This option I can no longer find, am I not looking hard enough?
I've still got the setting on my bank alt, and having outgoing whispers in a slightly different colour is very useful.

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Posted Apr 24, 2009
I'm having some serious problems here. Please help.

Problem 1: Font is too small in General chat and I can't change it. I can change the font in every other channel and when I try to change it using the same method it doesn't work.

Problem 2: I want to join the channels together into one channel and I can't figure out how to do that.

Problem 3: The whole chat window is way too small and I can't resize it.

Right now almost everything is too small for me to even read it and I can't get it to change. thanks

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Posted Apr 24, 2009
I did get same of that fixed. Another addon was interfering. How do I get rid of the useless time stamp at the beginning of every line?

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Posted May 1, 2009
Disable the timestamps module. (Look on the "Module Control" tab in prat's options)

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Posted Apr 24, 2009
I'm having a problem where the combat log from Yurr is being placed in the "PMs" window of Prat 3 so I have General, Combat Log and PMs that are filled with combat log data from Yurr. I'm not sure which addon needs to be fixed so I'll post this on both.

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Posted Apr 23, 2009
The "Paragraph" module STILL doesn't recognize the combat log window. In Prat2.0, it was possible to enable the Paragraph module and then set the combat-log to Right-justify (align) the text.

In Prat3.0, the "Paragraph" module ONLY recognizes one window for me: "General" (the chat window), even though I have two. ChatFrame2 = my combat log.

I solved it by writing a VERY small addon (probably the smallest addon EVER):

ChatFrame2:SetJustifyH("RIGHT")

But why can't your paragraph module detect the combat log window?

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Posted Apr 24, 2009
Prat does not touch the combat log by design. This leaves addons that want to free to do so without hinderance.

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Posted Apr 24, 2009
Hi, thanks for the quick response.

That's what I thought, that you don't want to hook into windows that aren't regular chat-windows.

However, couldn't you add support for Paragraphs-module to change the justification of the combat log? It's non-intrusive and something that Prat2 used to do, and when Prat3 came I remember seeing many requests for this feature to be re-added. Lots of people keep their combat log on the right side of the screen and want it right-aligned.

The only thing stopping me from releasing a "combat log right-justify" addon is that my ChatFrame2:SetJustifyH("RIGHT") is not necessarily the combat log on other people's computers (my combat log is in ChatFrame2, and I've seen various others for other people). I suppose there is some form of property that identifies the type of a chatframe, and in that case I could loop through all frames, find the combat log and right-justify it...

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Posted Apr 24, 2009
Umm? Two interesting... no, very interesting, lines from the changelog.

\CHANGELOG-PRAT-3.0-3.1.5.TXT
[669]let copychat button appear on combat log frame
[1362]untested change to allow justification on the combat log frame.

The details of the latter say:
"r79 | sylvanaar | 2008-10-29 05:30:19 +0000 (Wed, 29 Oct 2008) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/modules/Paragraph.lua
untested change to allow justification on the combat log frame."

What surprised me the most is that it's your name. :-P How about it then, is it still out of the scope for Prat to do a simple "if == combatlog then rightjustify" in the paragraph module (and nowhere else, meaning it won't interfere with anything)?

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Posted Apr 24, 2009
PS: Bug report/annoyance:
The CopyChat module (which adds the copy button) adds one to the combat log, but since the combat log is not tracked by Prat, it doesn't allow ANY way to disable the copy button on the combat log window. It'd make MUCH more sense if CopyChat looped through the PRAT-HOOKED windows and only added buttons to those. Either that, or add the ability to disable the copy button even on UNHOOKED frames. :/

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Posted Apr 25, 2009
Your right. Nice catch

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Posted Apr 21, 2009
How do you change channel colors? Been reseting and deleting and restarting WoW multiple times to find out why or what's causing me to not be able to set the colors. It's highly annoying as I wanna be able to distinguish sent and received whispers from each other.

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Posted Apr 20, 2009
rofl at the chat log about pallies.

and im gonna be installing this now, been waiting for 1/2 a year now to fix mine =D

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Posted Apr 19, 2009
I've a question.
I'm tryin this addon after using ChatMod for a long time.
It's possible, in some way, to NOT save the whisper dialogues (I mean, if I play enter after a whisp, i always want to find the guild panel, the party panel or raid, not the last whisper....dunno if I have been clear)....

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Posted Apr 27, 2009
Open up the prat options (/prat). In the 'Display Settings' tab, select 'Channel Sticky'. Then uncheck Sticky IncomingWhisper.

I hope this is what you mean... :)

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