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.
In reply to oxed:
Maybe elvui is interfering
Any chance of Prat getting "profiles" the way many other addons have? Ideally I'd like most of my characters to share the same profile (and, importantly, chat history).
In reply to Ommand:
You can save a profile and set it for each of your characters. It would make sense to just have that be the default mode of operation.
Sharing chat history seems like a rare use case.
In reply to sylvanaar:
Do you not have multiple characters? I feel like anyone who does would much prefer a shared chat history compared to not having it.
In reply to Ommand:
I do - and good point I guess. Let me think about how best to handle it so that it doesn't surprise other users.
In reply to Ommand:
I might be able to save it on your Faction/Realm combo. That seems like it would make the most sense?
In reply to sylvanaar:
Seems reasonable. At least from my point of view there should never be a need for more than that.
Is there a way to show levels for people in trade chat and other local type channels? I believe it used to when I played over year or so ago and I recently started playing again and noticed that. Current release build of prat.
Same goes for right clicking a players name. There used to be a "Who" type option to get their data without having to type /who player name.
Maybe Im just blind and the options are turned off in current builds?
I do have Show level ticked in the player name options but it only works for Guild members.
Thanks and have a great day and as always a wonderful addon!
In reply to JibsGaming:
There is no way to do it anymore. That used to work via calls to the /who api which blizzard locked down last year
Hey guys - another new feature in the next release. The ability to select the text you want to copy.
When it is released - you can right-click the copy chat icon enter the select mode:
Watch this video
https://www.screencast.com/t/OHH4fg97ul9U
Search would be nice but Please Please move it as It in the way to clicking links.
Awesome addon I've used for as long as i can remember but i don't like where the search is on the chat made me take the addon off :(
In reply to SuzeyQ:
You can always disable the search module
In the next build I have added a UI for the search feature. It will be living in the upper right corner of the chatframe.
I am trying the feature out and would like some feedback on how to improve it. So it is going to just be on for the next release or so.
In reply to sylvanaar:
Hi, I love teh search function, can you add the ability to move it? And maybe even move it outside of teh chat frame? Because I would place just above teh chat window.
In reply to HD_MOVIE_SOURCE:
I have moved it so that it is more out of the way. What do you think?
In reply to HD_MOVIE_SOURCE:
In reply to HD_MOVIE_SOURCE:
I have moved it so that it is more out of the way. What do you think?
In reply to sylvanaar:
Hi, I love teh search function, can you add the ability to move it? And maybe even move it outside of teh chat frame? Because I would place just above teh chat window.
I agree. Would like to move it instead of it being in the middle of the window. I have opted not to load it at this point because of annoying placement. Nice thought to have it though.
In reply to Shaundi9:
I have moved it so that it is more out of the way. What do you think?
In reply to sylvanaar:
I can't find a way to disable it, it's very inconveniently located and I have no need for it.
Edit: had to change the module from "disabled" to "don't load".
In reply to Ommand:
I have moved it so that it is more out of the way. What do you think?