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 May 25, 2013same as with 3.5.5, now with 3.5.6:
1x Prat-3.0-3.5.6\modules\ChannelSticky.lua:430: attempt to index local "chan" (a nil value)
Prat-3.0-3.5.6\modules\ChannelSticky.lua:430: in function "BuildChannelList"
Prat-3.0-3.5.6\modules\ChannelSticky.lua:276: in function "OnModuleEnable"
Prat-3.0-3.5.6\addon\modules.lua:182: in function <Prat-3.0\addon\modules.lua:174>
(tail call): ?
<in C code>
<string>:"safecall Dispatcher[1]":9: in function <string>:"safecall Dispatcher[1]":5
(tail call): ?
Ace3-Release-r1086\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0-12.lua:558: in function "EnableAddon"
Ace3-Release-r1086\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0-12.lua:571: in function "EnableAddon"
Ace3-Release-r1086\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0-12.lua:651: in function <Ace3\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:636>
<in C code>
FrameXML\UIParent.lua:302: in function "UIParentLoadAddOn"
FrameXML\UIParent.lua:325: in function "CombatLog_LoadUI"
FrameXML\UIParent.lua:723: in function <FrameXML\UIParent.lua:686>
Locals:
nil
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Posted May 22, 2013I recently noticed that the "Set Main" option of altNames that shows up when right clicking on someone's name wasn't there anymore... Reading through the comments to see if it was a bug I found this: http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/prat-3-0#c3435 which says it was intentional, and asked why. I'm also curious why this was disabled, as I found it VERY useful when I wanted to tag individual people, or people not in my guild.
I would also like to ask why why why was this disabled on purpose, and can we please please please get it back? Pretty please?
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Posted May 19, 2013A: I love this add on. Thank You!
B: I have a second monitor now, and would like to have this chat window run on it. Any idea how?
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Posted May 18, 2013when i type something it does not pop into the chatbox this happens with chatter too how can i fix this?
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Posted May 15, 2013Is it possible to add the copychat button into the same row as the original buttons?
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Posted Apr 24, 2013How do i enable the background color thingy ?
Its still looks like the wow UI transperant chat boxes =\
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Posted Apr 21, 2013Logged in today and i cant join guild chat with Prat turned on. As soon as it is off /g chat works just fine. Oddly though while its on officer chat still works.
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Posted Apr 18, 2013Since today, the chat doesnt fade away after a certain amount of time. If I change the time neccessary to pass to fade, it works again. For the session. No errors.
Update1:
I changed a few options in NickAlert before the problem started. I changed everything back. Didnt help. Then I remembered that all my toon use the same profile. Actually they all have their own profile but they are just copies of the on I created on my main. So I switched to a profile from my alts, on my main. It worked ! Fading is working again as it should.
Update2:
It seems that this isnt over. I got me the newest version of miirgui and its still happening after session changes, enter/leave dungeons or any loading screen. Even logging in creates this bug.
The current workaround seems to work so I can keep both. Save profile a second time and when the bug is there, switch to the other profile with identical settings.
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Posted Apr 14, 2013How do you set this to clear your chat boxes after you have logged out for the day/night
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Posted Apr 9, 2013I just reported a person that whispered me and right after the report went out via the chatdropdownmenu, the whisper disappeared. I scrolled up abit but its like its deleted from the chat.
Is this a wow chat related "feature" or prat feature? I never encountered anything like this since the new chat dropdownmenu to report players is in the game. Normally I report players and can still read what they wrote.
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Posted Apr 13, 2013This is a WoW related feature, anytime you report someone, they are temporarily ignored and the message will go away. They are un-ignored once you start a new session of WoW
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Posted Apr 1, 2013Pet battle ui not working when prat is actived. My Pet battle chat log and combat log seperates from the main chat panel and my buttons for pet battle disappear entirely, forcing me to logout to exit combat.
Message: Interface\AddOns\Prat-3.0\modules\ChatFrames.lua:342: attempt to call method 'ConfigureAllChatFrames' (a nil value)
Time: 04/02/13 00:14:41
Count: 1
Stack: [C]: in function `ConfigureAllChatFrames'
Interface\AddOns\Prat-3.0\modules\ChatFrames.lua:342: in function <Interface\AddOns\Prat-3.0\modules\ChatFrames.lua:336>
(tail call): ?
Interface\FrameXML\FloatingChatFrame.lua:804: in function `FCF_OpenTemporaryWindow'
...AddOns\Blizzard_PetBattleUI\Blizzard_PetBattleUI.lua:146: in function `PetBattleFrame_Display'
...AddOns\Blizzard_PetBattleUI\Blizzard_PetBattleUI.lua:94: in function <...AddOns\Blizzard_PetBattleUI\Blizzard_PetBattleUI.lua:91>
Locals:
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Posted Mar 24, 2013Hi,
I noticed that the altNames function doesn't work anymore. After reading the changelog, they were intentionally disabled. Why? Will they come back?
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Posted Mar 9, 2013still...
1x Prat-3.0-3.5.5\modules\ChannelSticky.lua:430: attempt to index local "chan" (a nil value)
Prat-3.0-3.5.5\modules\ChannelSticky.lua:430: in function "BuildChannelList"
Prat-3.0-3.5.5\modules\ChannelSticky.lua:276: in function "OnModuleEnable"
Prat-3.0-3.5.5\addon\modules.lua:182: in function <Prat-3.0\addon\modules.lua:174>
(tail call): ?
<in C code>
<string>:"safecall Dispatcher[1]":9: in function <string>:"safecall Dispatcher[1]":5
(tail call): ?
Ace3-Release-r1083\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0-11.lua:543: in function "EnableAddon"
Ace3-Release-r1083\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0-11.lua:556: in function "EnableAddon"
Ace3-Release-r1083\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0-11.lua:636: in function <Ace3\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:621>
<in C code>
FrameXML\UIParent.lua:301: in function "UIParentLoadAddOn"
FrameXML\UIParent.lua:324: in function "CombatLog_LoadUI"
FrameXML\UIParent.lua:715: in function <FrameXML\UIParent.lua:678>
Locals:
nil
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Posted Mar 9, 2013Same error with the new Version:
Message: ..\AddOns\Prat-3.0\modules\ChannelSticky.lua line 430:
attempt to index local 'chan' (a nil value)
Debug:
Prat-3.0\modules\ChannelSticky.lua:430: BuildChannelList()
Prat-3.0\modules\ChannelSticky.lua:276: OnModuleEnable()
Prat-3.0\addon\modules.lua:182:
Prat-3.0\addon\modules.lua:174
(tail call): ?
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:9:
[string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:5
(tail call): ?
Ace3\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:543: EnableAddon()
Ace3\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:556: EnableAddon()
Ace3\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:636:
I use the german client and added the following to the line to quick-and-dirty correct this error (copyied some lines to identifify where I changed something, its line 420 and the following):
if va ~= "CHANNEL" then
chan = TEXT(_G["CHAT_MSG_"..va])
if (va == "INSTANCE_CHAT") then
chan = "Instanz";
end
else
chan = L["Channel"]
end
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Posted Apr 5, 2013Chat history still isn't working :(
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Posted Mar 8, 2013Chat history no longer working for Prat after 5.2?
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Posted Feb 28, 2013It appears the AceTimer library needs updating.
FrameXML\ContainerFrame.lua:591: attempt to perform arithmetic on a nil value
FrameXML\ContainerFrame.lua:591: in function <FrameXML\ContainerFrame.lua:585>
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Titan-5.1.13.50100\TitanMovable.lua:351: in function "TitanMovableFrame_MoveFrames"
Titan-5.1.13.50100\TitanMovable.lua:527: in function "TitanPanel_AdjustFrames"
Titan-5.1.13.50100\TitanMovable.lua:542: in function "func"
Prat-3.0-3.5.4_Libraries-3.5.4\AceTimer-3.0\AceTimer-3.0-15.lua:41: in function <Prat-3.0_Libraries\AceTimer-3.0\AceTimer-3.0.lua:36>
Locals:
= <func> @FrameXML\ContainerFrame.lua:585
= <func> @Postal\Libs\..\AceHook-3.0.lua:100
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Posted Feb 12, 2013As others have said, is there any way to change the Chat Frame Strata? I'm using ElvUI but dislike their chat mod and would like to use Prat 3.0 instead, but it keeps falling behind ElvUI's chat backgrounds and with ElvUI and Prat both not having strata options, I am losing my gourd.
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Posted Feb 16, 2013i'm getting this too. gonna revert to prior release for now i guess.