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.
I no longer get separate windows for individual conversations and havent for a while, what happened?
In reply to rfzm:
That setting is currently maintained by the default UI. Most likely you somehow lost your setting. You should go into the social options panel. ESC - Inferface Options - Social
We are currently working on a new module that will help maintain these settings for you. It is in development now -the "Memory" module
How do I turn off message sound when guild member's achievments pop up? As far as I remember it didn't do any sound in previous version, only when someone did write something.
In reply to sth_dev:
I think it is a side-effect of the achievements module being enabled. Try disabling it.
In reply to sylvanaar:
Sorry for late reply, but it didn't work for me, still getting guild channel incoming sound whenever someone from my guild achieves something.
ISSUE: when a new window is created, it opens a 'SAY' dialogue that must have something entered into it; it can't just be cancelled by ESC
In reply to merikkinon:
At any particular time? I have been opening chat windows a lot recently in order to test the new Memory module, and it isn't happening to me.
If you can see what might be triggering it that would really help
In reply to sylvanaar:
I would say it is entirely located in the addon, because I disabled them all but Prat and it is still happening.
In reply to merikkinon:
I see now. Thanks. It is fixed in alpha and will be in the next release
In reply to merikkinon:
Me too, the chat line used to be canceled with Esc. If even to send it you need to click in-to it.
This happens if I start a new line and get distracted and open a different overlay in-game, which happens a lot.
If I'm not mistaken, control is handed over to the new overlay and the opened chat line is forgotten. It used to *not* relinquish control to the overlay (hmmm.. I neglected to check for an overlay setting).
It is different though.
In reply to merikkinon:
In reply to merikkinon:
Me too, the chat line used to be canceled with Esc. If even to send it you need to click in-to it.
This happens if I start a new line and get distracted and open a different overlay in-game, which happens a lot.
If I'm not mistaken, control is handed over to the new overlay and the opened chat line is forgotten. It used to *not* relinquish control to the overlay (hmmm.. I neglected to check for an overlay setting).
It is different though.
In reply to merikkinon:
Me too, the chat line used to be canceled with Esc. If even to send it you need to click in-to it.
This happens if I start a new line and get distracted and open a different overlay in-game, which happens a lot.
If I'm not mistaken, control is handed over to the new overlay and the opened chat line is forgotten. It used to *not* relinquish control to the overlay (hmmm.. I neglected to check for an overlay setting).
It is different though.
In reply to merikkinon:
Me too, the chat line used to be canceled with Esc. If even to send it you need to click in-to it.
This happens if I start a new line and get distracted and open a different overlay in-game, which happens a lot.
If I'm not mistaken, control is handed over to the new overlay and the opened chat line is forgotten. It used to *not* relinquish control to the overlay (hmmm.. I neglected to check for an overlay setting).
It is different though.
hi, why does your addon add freezes to the game?
wow classic, wow bfa
In reply to QeeWIGames:
Where, how? I don't experience any.
You can try turning down some settings. In particular Playername: Color Names Everywhere
Currently no longer have a 'scroll up' button on my chat screen.
The addon is causing stuttering when there is a pull timer or after a few arena games(chat spam). What may be causing this?
In reply to spunkygg:
I am not sure. I would need to capture some information so I can fix it - but how many messages would you say there are?
One culprit may be the PlayerNames: Color Names Everywhere option.
Can you try toggling it off - and reloading your UI. Let me know if that solves the issue
If you can give me enough details that I can repeat the problem myself that would be great too.
something in this addon is preventing the return of chat tab names i think,havea simple addon that send ah messages to a chat tab named "AH" and surpresses it for allothers,with prat enabled it surpresses but does not send to "AH" tab
In reply to Nirran00:
How does it work? Maybe some source showing how you filter and redirect the messages