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 SuzeyQ:
its in module
I had no idea this command was a thing. Now I'll actually be able to use the PlayerNames "color names everywhere" setting, probably.
You may want to mention this command in the addon description. :D
Is there a way to disable the new search thingy? Its always visible even after disabling the module.
Update:
Nevermind. Setting the module to "dont load" disables it for good.
In reply to Zasz_:
You are right - it should hide when the module is disabled. That is a bug. Fixed.
In reply to sylvanaar:
Awesome. Thanks.
In reply to Zasz_:
where in the settings do I go to find "dont load' to disable it for good. Thanks :)
In reply to Zasz_:
where in the settings do I go to find "dont load' to disable it for good. Thanks :)
In reply to zibros:
In module control -> search.
hello thanks for eep updating and fixing.
is their away to keep tab names show all time?
mine keeps fading and not show until i mouse over
In reply to oxed:
Are you using the ChatTabs module to keep them showing?
In reply to sylvanaar:
chattab enabled and i set fading 240 even
In reply to oxed:
Make sure the check marks are GOLD not SILVER in the ChatTabs options
In reply to sylvanaar:
General gold
Party Gold
guild Gold
still tab title fade until i mouse over it
btw I'm using elvui
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.