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Prat 3.0
- 75 Likes
- World of Warcraft
- 140,976 Monthly Downloads
- Supports: 5.3.0
- 7,004,773 Total Downloads
- Updated 05/22/2013
- Created 07/28/2008
- 9,556 Favorites
- Project Site
- Comments
- Release Type: Release
- License: GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3)
- Newest File: 3.5.6
About Prat 3.0
Prat-3.0 is a chat enhancement addon for world of warcraft 3.0.
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.
Bug reports: http://www.wowace.com/projects/prat-3-0/tickets/
Forum thread: http://forums.wowace.com/showthread.php?t=14004
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)
- Change arrows, buttons, mouse scroll for chat scroll, scroll speed
- you can add color per channel, color per lvl, color per class
- timestamps
- timestamp color
- whether to show timestamp (what format the timestamp should be in)
- whether to show players lvl
- 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 prolly even add other fonts to that list)
- change the chat frame/chat box appearance
- set Chat history
- 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
- info keeping
- url copying
- full chat copying + options (html,bbcode, plain, forum) + copy button
- allows pop-up msgs
- enables tell target /tt
- Alias options
- altnames options
- you can enable/disable all prat modules - dont have to have the ones you dont use running
- change chat sounds (incoming and outgoing as well as per channel)
Its predecessor, Prat-2.0 has been around since the TBC release in 2006. This new version seeks to improve upon some aspects such as memory use, but still do so without creating 30+ small folders in your addon directory that you have to manage.
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. I have been trying to isolate the most resource intensive functionality into the Prat_HighCPUUSageModules folder. You can enable or disable it per your preference.

2013-05-22 sylvanaar <sylvanaar@mindspring.com>
[ff0d8159f7fa] [3.5.6]
* Prat-3.0.toc libraries/Prat-3.0_Libraries.toc pullouts/!AddMsgFilterReport/!AddMsgFilterReport.toc pullouts/Prat-3.0_Debug/Prat-3.0_Debug.toc pullouts/Prat-3.0_Experimental/Prat-3.0_Experimental.toc pullouts/Prat-3.0_HighCPUUsageModules/Prat-3.0_HighCPUUsageModules.toc pullouts/Prat-3.0_Loader/Prat-3.0_Loader.toc samples/MyGuildAlts/MyGuildAlts.toc
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| File Name | Release Type | Game Version | Downloads | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.5.6 | Release | 5.3.0 | 94,646 | 05/22/2013 |
| 3.5.6-nolib | Release | 5.3.0 | 944 | 05/22/2013 |
| 3.5.5 | Release | 5.2.0 | 234,851 | 03/08/2013 |
| 3.5.5-nolib | Release | 5.2.0 | 2,185 | 03/08/2013 |
| 3.5.4 | Release | 5.1.0 | 181,973 | 02/10/2013 |
| 3.5.4-nolib | Release | 5.1.0 | 1,750 | 02/10/2013 |
| 3.5.3 | Release | 5.1.0 | 292,599 | 11/27/2012 |
| 3.5.3-nolib | Release | 5.1.0 | 2,571 | 11/27/2012 |
| 3.5.2 | Release | 5.1.0 | 14,886 | 11/27/2012 |
| 3.5.2-nolib | Release | 5.1.0 | 133 | 11/27/2012 |
| 3.5.1 | Release | 5.0.5 | 291,873 | 09/30/2012 |
| 3.5.1-nolib | Release | 5.0.5 | 2,910 | 09/30/2012 |
| 3.5 | Release | 5.0.4 | 276,491 | 08/28/2012 |
| 3.5-nolib | Release | 5.0.4 | 3,017 | 08/28/2012 |
| 3.4.25 | Release | 4.3 | 1,108,396 | 11/29/2011 |
| 3.4.25-nolib | Release | 4.2 | 12,079 | 11/29/2011 |
| 3.4.24 | Release | 4.2 | 670,952 | 07/04/2011 |
| 3.4.24-nolib | Release | 4.2 | 5,014 | 07/04/2011 |
| 3.4.23 | Release | 4.2 | 190,158 | 06/29/2011 |
| 3.4.23-nolib | Release | 4.2 | 2,984 | 06/29/2011 |
| 3.4.22 | Release | 4.2 | 93,907 | 06/29/2011 |
| 3.4.22-nolib | Release | 4.2 | 1,058 | 06/29/2011 |
| 3.4.21 | Release | 4.2 | 109,589 | 06/28/2011 |
| 3.4.21-nolib | Release | 4.2 | 1,563 | 06/28/2011 |
| 3.4.20 | Release | 4.1 | 201,602 | 06/06/2011 |
| 3.4.20-nolib | Release | 4.1 | 1,314 | 06/06/2011 |
| 3.4.19 | Release | 4.1 | 4,507 | 04/26/2011 |
| 3.4.19-nolib | Release | 4.1 | 49 | 04/26/2011 |
| 3.4.18 | Release | 4.0.6 | 18,080 | 04/26/2011 |
| 3.4.18-nolib | Release | 4.0.6 | 224 | 04/26/2011 |
| 3.4.17 | Release | 4.0.6 | 1,021 | 04/26/2011 |
| 3.4.17-nolib | Release | 4.0.6 | 22 | 04/26/2011 |
| 3.4.16 | Release | 4.0.6 | 1,367 | 04/22/2011 |
| 3.4.16-nolib | Release | 4.0.6 | 67 | 04/22/2011 |
| 3.4.15 | Release | 4.0.3a | 4,226 | 01/13/2011 |
| 3.4.15-nolib | Release | 4.0.3a | 29 | 01/13/2011 |
| 3.4.14 | Release | 4.0.3a | 2,022 | 12/30/2010 |
| 3.4.14-nolib | Release | 4.0.3a | 22 | 12/30/2010 |
| 3.4.13 | Release | 4.0.3a | 4,854 | 11/23/2010 |
| 3.4.13-nolib | Release | 4.0.3a | 34 | 11/23/2010 |
| 3.4.12 | Release | 4.0.1 | 1,034 | 11/15/2010 |
| 3.4.12-nolib | Release | 4.0.1 | 11 | 11/15/2010 |
| 3.4.11 | Release | 4.0.1 | 11,278 | 11/14/2010 |
| 3.4.11-nolib | Release | 4.0.1 | 8 | 11/14/2010 |
| 3.4.10 | Release | 4.0.1 | 2,772 | 11/01/2010 |
| 3.4.10-nolib | Release | 4.0.1 | 29 | 11/01/2010 |
| 3.4.9 | Release | 4.0.1 | 1,923 | 10/30/2010 |
| 3.4.9-nolib | Release | 4.0.1 | 321 | 10/30/2010 |
| Beta 1-nolib | Beta | 3.0.9 | 6,939 | 10/29/2010 |
| Beta 2-nolib | Beta | 3.0.9 | 85 | 10/29/2010 |
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Comments
Chat history still isn't working :(
It 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>
<in C code>
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
As 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.
After update I get a:
Date: 2013-02-10 21:25:01
ID: 1
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
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): ?
i'm getting this too. gonna revert to prior release for now i guess.
Any word on the return of Smart Group? I still don't understand why it was removed. Other than not being able to determine Instance_Chat versus Raid, it still works. I have it used in several macros.
Does this addon allow messaging to MSBT? Like.. when someone would say my chars name, it would broadcast to MSBT Messages. Currently Chatter isnt functioning in the new version with this, and im pretty anal about not having [ ]s around realid names, not just the char theyre on, thanks!
Hi..
Im using prat, and when i type the symbol "?" in the note, the addon "eats" the last word you typed, any idea to fix this? I have the same problem in my 2 notes and the PC does not happen...
THanks.
Hi,
Can I edit the chat tabs by font, color and background opacity?
Not the chat text just the tab names.
I've renamed the tabs but would like to edit the visual.
Thanks.
Been scrolling through the comments trying to find the answer to this with little or no success. How often does the ChatLog feature of Prat save it's data to the text file?
Is it when the buffer is full, or is it at certain intervals? Can't seem to find any information on it.
Thanks!
Addons are extremely limited in how they can actually write any data. They can only write to .lua files in your WTF folder and the formatting of that is controlled.
Prat's ChatLog module is simply something that auto enables the game's built in logging feature.
That being said, Prat has no control over when the chat is sent to the log. Afaik, the game writes to WoWChatLog.txt (and all other log files) periodically as it gets data to write (it may or may not buffer these writes), at character logout, and at game exit.
Can a sound module be added for /instance please?
So used to hearing pings etc for other channels, I miss LFR and /i
Hi, I am not sure what I am not putting on but in my chat box, I do not see the little name has set star on name, how do I fix this?
Is there a custom chat for channelsticky? Seems to have been broken for a while.
Also pet battle combat bar keeps popping up whenever I do a battle, would rather that stayed away but haven't seen if it currently supports it
My memory usage shot up like crazy after installing Prat. Going back to Minimalist to shorten my channel names...that's the ONLY feature I needed from Prat, this mod is overkill. Minimalist is also overkill, since I've found good mods to do everything but the chat shortening/scrolling, but it's still much better than Prat.