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 Jun 25, 2019In reply to hjh3rd:
I've found hitting escape brings it back. I'm down to 2 addons causing issues (decursive and prat) and both are having the same issue (some change in ScrollFrame behavior).
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Posted Jun 25, 2019In reply to hjh3rd:
Posted a hopefully functional cludge-of-a-fix just above your comment. :-)
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Posted Jun 20, 2019When I'm trying to copy text that contains Chinese characters, it's absolutely empty. As long as Chinese characters appeared in my chatbox, I can't copy anything. I want to copy Chinese characters. Any solution?
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Posted Jun 2, 2019I try to remove a frame of messages in clouds. To display only text. This function only works outside of the raid, the raid all the same, the message in the frame. Help please!
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Posted May 7, 2019Hello,
This addon has been abandonned ?
There's problem with method dungeon tool, not working for 8.2 ptr and more minor problems ...
Last update was 6 months ago and i saw no answer form creator or contributor :/
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Posted Apr 30, 2019I don't know why but, on the PTR, my character movement keys (<, >, space bar, etc.) no longer function when Prat is running. Tried disabling each add-on separately and the issue only happens when Prat is active. I thought you should know.
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Posted Apr 17, 2019Please fix the problem with method dungeon tools. most link shared by group mates arent working for import. Addon is useless with this bug for m+ raiders
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Posted Apr 16, 2019A global profile would be so nice! Perhaps something like sexymaps?
Profiles have never really worked with this mod.
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Posted Apr 4, 2019Sorry... gotta ask.
I've got the "clear" module loaded. Is there a way to clear a certain chat window without clearing all chat windows?
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Posted Mar 10, 2019Hi. How to disable repeat the name of the characters ? An example in the screenshots. Help.
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Posted Mar 16, 2019In reply to Luk4s_911:
I'm getting the same thing and was just looking for a way to disable it. It came recently, as I never noticed it before. It's driving me batty.
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Posted Apr 21, 2019In reply to Luk4s_911:
Temporary solution was posted here
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Posted Feb 22, 2019Concerning the "sounds" module:
Please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please add an option for Communities or custom channels.
Currently, there IS a custom channels tab, but it is empty(or broken maybe).
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Posted Jan 26, 2019@sylvanaar: if you don't want to keep this up, mind asking for people to look at the code and potentially start 4.0?
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Posted Jan 25, 2019I would really love for someone to take over this project if the original authors are no longer active. I havent been able to find a suitable alternative that does everything prat does. Authors if you see this, please update!
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Posted Mar 6, 2019In reply to phemminger:
What?! Prat died? No!!!! I love this addon!
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Posted Jan 18, 2019The addon adds a bunch of text whenever someone links a Method Dungeon Tool import link in chat, and it becomes unclickable. Have to disable the addon in order to import someone elses MDT routes. Would very much like to continue being able to use this addon but if I have to disable it each time I do dungeons it's a bit of a problem. Been using this addon many expansions now and it would be a shame to lose it. Is there maybe an option I can use to fix this or another way to resolve it?
How it looks with the addon enabled: https://imgur.com/a/WN1a2PZ
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Posted Jan 13, 2019everytime i open the chat box i get this error and have to reload:
Message: Interface\FrameXML\ChatConfigFrame.lua:1462: attempt to index local 'info' (a nil value)
Time: Sun Jan 13 12:39:36 2019
Count: 1
Stack: Interface\FrameXML\ChatConfigFrame.lua:1462: attempt to index local 'info' (a nil value)
[C]: ?
Interface\FrameXML\ChatConfigFrame.lua:1462: in function `GetMessageTypeColor'
Interface\AddOns\Prat-3.0\modules\Editbox.lua:815: in function <Interface\AddOns\Prat-3.0\modules\Editbox.lua:804>
(tail call): ?
Interface\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:4016: in function `ChatEdit_ResetChatType'
Interface\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:3997: in function `ChatEdit_OnShow'
[string "*:OnShow"]:1: in function <[string "*:OnShow"]:1>
[C]: in function `Show'
Interface\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:4055: in function `ChatEdit_ActivateChat'
Interface\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:3676: in function `ChatFrame_OpenChat'
[string "OPENCHAT"]:1: in function <[string "OPENCHAT"]:1>
Locals:
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Posted Dec 30, 2018Tried to set my member note in a community I joined today. Got the following error:
Date: 2018-12-30 15:44:10
ID: 1
Error occured in: AddOn: Prat-3.0
Count: 2
Message: Error: AddOn Prat-3.0 attempted to call a forbidden function (SetClubMemberNote()) from a tainted execution path.
Debug:
[C]: SetClubMemberNote()
..\FrameXML\StaticPopup.lua:2332: OnAccept()
..\FrameXML\StaticPopup.lua:4990: StaticPopup_OnClick()
[string "*:OnClick"]:1:
[string "*:OnClick"]:1
Locals:
None
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Posted Dec 29, 2018ok. i noticed it stops functioning when the section includes Battle.NET whispers.
it seems to work as long as those are not in the slice.
(this is about chat copy)