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 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?
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...
and im gonna be installing this now, been waiting for 1/2 a year now to fix mine =D
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)....
I hope this is what you mean... :)
See this post, and post any followups in the prat thread.
http://forums.wowace.com/showpost.php?p=272353&postcount=674
I absolutely LOVE prat! But just tonight I encountered a problem with it. I could not see system notifications such as "You invited **** to group" "**** has gone online", or "**** has gone offline." You get the idea. I even reset my profile to defaults, but it still has not worked; any help would be nice!