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 Oct 2, 2017ridiculous the copy function still doesnt work and i need to edit files AND this addon causes some problems with the interface not allowing me to set focus on someone and forcing me to /reload
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Posted Oct 2, 2017Just wanted to say tyvm for such a great addon. Been using it a long time and it is the best chat addon out there.
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Posted Sep 28, 2017There is a very easy fix for this.
Go to "Prat-3.0\modules" and locate "CopyChat.lua"
edit and go to 868th line, there should be "PlaySound("igChatBottom");"
Delete that line and save. Reload UI. It should be working now.
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Posted Oct 3, 2017Greate fix, now my copy/past works again
/Cheers
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Posted Oct 3, 2017The correct fix can be found by simply scrolling down a little bit further! Seriously, just 6 comments before you posted! Was it just to difficult to scroll down that far!
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Posted Oct 6, 2017tyvm it worked
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Posted Sep 27, 2017for the love of god, update this. it's ridiculous to have to wait this long. people are going to start moving over to something more reliable.
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Posted Oct 3, 2017Do you think being a jerk is going to get it done any faster?
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Posted Sep 24, 2017/sad
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Posted Sep 21, 2017Will this addon be updated? Getting constant errors from this addon that its blocking interface options and it also doesnt work to copy anymore. I cant find any other addons that lts you copy text and its really usefull.
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Posted Sep 19, 2017Any chance of this add-on being updated?
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Posted Sep 19, 2017How do you add/change colours?
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Posted Sep 19, 2017To fix the copy function. Open Addons\Prat-3.0\modules\CopyChat.Lua in notepad
Change line 868 to -
PlaySound(SOUNDKIT.IG_CHAT_BOTTOM);
I fixed it without noting what it was originally. I think the line was originally -
PlaySound("igchatbottom");
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Posted Sep 20, 2017Thanks for making this more clear. I don't do script and had no idea what program to open it with.
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Posted Sep 20, 2017Notepad++ good
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Posted Sep 24, 2017Works :) Thank you so much
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Posted Sep 18, 20179x Prat-3.0-r1078 \modules\CopyChat.lua:868: Usage: PlaySound(soundKitID, optional["SFX","Music","Ambience", "Dialog" or "Master"], [forceNoDuplicates, runFinishCallback])
[C]: in function `PlaySound'
Prat-3.0-r1078 \modules\CopyChat.lua:868: in function <Prat-3.0\modules\CopyChat.lua:867>
Locals:
(*temporary) = "igChatBottom"
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Posted Sep 16, 2017Oh my GOD, the ONLY reason I use this is so I can copy things from chat. And you haven't fixed this nonsense yet??
Message: Interface\AddOns\Prat-3.0\modules\CopyChat.lua:868: Usage: PlaySound(soundKitID, optional["SFX","Music","Ambience", "Dialog" or "Master"], [forceNoDuplicates, runFinishCallback])
Time: 09/16/17 16:56:54
Count: 3
Stack: Interface\AddOns\Prat-3.0\modules\CopyChat.lua:868: Usage: PlaySound(soundKitID, optional["SFX","Music","Ambience", "Dialog" or "Master"], [forceNoDuplicates, runFinishCallback])
[C]: ?
[C]: in function `PlaySound'
Interface\AddOns\Prat-3.0\modules\CopyChat.lua:868: in function <Interface\AddOns\Prat-3.0\modules\CopyChat.lua:867>
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Posted Sep 17, 2017Perhaps it's not Prat, other Copy Chat add ons are behaving in the same manner.
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Posted Sep 18, 2017Blizzard, from what I've heard, changed the way the sound system is referenced. Instead of referencing by name (ie MainMenuOpen), they now reference by Sound ID (ie MainMenuOpen => 463772).
Any addon that calls a sound when performing an action is broken until the author's update to reference the ID numbers.