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.

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Posted Feb 25, 2010-
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Posted Feb 13, 2010Having an issue with Prat. I have two chat windows, one for chat and one for combat text. Often, even if locked, the Combat window is repositioned over the Chat window.
And lately, I have no tabs at all with which to move the windows. No General tab for example.
Any ideas?
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Posted Feb 9, 2010Now, my issue:
With the AddOnMsgs module. Is there any chance of you adding support for customizing the output?
For one, the [CHAT_MSG_ADDON] for every single line kind of takes up half the chat window and there is no easy way to see who the hidden messages are coming from, only where from (Guild, Party, Whisper, etc)
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Posted Feb 7, 2010But i am having a problem with the General Chat [Trade] flashing/blinking. I can't find a reason for this in the menu, but it is getting to be annoying. This just started today. Tried reinstalling, no help.
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Posted Feb 1, 20101. Is there a way to hide the chatwindowname? I have 2 windows and when I hover above a players name in the top window the chatwindowname of the bottom window comes in my way so i cannot click on the players name...
2. Any idea why my font is always resetting to blizzard standard font (i set it in options -> reload ui -> gone. with and without the "remember font" option)?
3. is there a way to set the chatframe strata? at the moment i use an addon that simply makes a black square at parts of my screen and since then i cannot click chatlinks in my chat...
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Posted Jan 29, 2010I recently started getting the text: Default Msg appearing in the chat box after i do anything, form change, stealth, anything really
anyone know why?
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Posted Jan 27, 2010Was a good addon while I used it, If you fix this I'll come back. On to ... uhh... chatter... i guess...
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Posted Jan 27, 2010How can i do that?
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Posted Jan 25, 2010-
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Posted Jan 22, 2010Is there anyway to have the addon store the windows that i've created and their positions in the profile so that it could be copied to a new character?
It isnt a really big thing but it takes me about 10 - 15 min to setup my addons, and every little bit helps :)
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Posted Jan 22, 2010Thanks
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Posted Jan 20, 2010Because the global chat is only needed in cities, I do not put a background on it. However, if I put text shadows on for visibility it makes the letter spacing on windows that do not need an outline making it look very clunky.
And I would also like to change the font for the general and loot windows.
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Posted Jan 19, 2010Prat do not aquire this information for libalts, but use its data avaiable and share with libalts.
is possible get the information alts used libalts1.0?
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Posted Jan 20, 2010as for overlapping your bar, again, just like base UI, move your chatbox or your action bar.