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)
Some of the cooler new features I have added are 2 column chatframes, and mouseover hilighting of lines of text from the same player(illustrated below).
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.
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r342 | sylvanaar | 2009-06-25 04:36:29 +0000 (Thu, 25 Jun 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/modules/PlayerNames.lua
check for valid GUID
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r341 | sylvanaar | 2009-06-25 03:18:21 +0000 (Thu, 25 Jun 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/modules/PlayerNames.lua
if there is no playerlink dont do any lookups
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r340 | sylvanaar | 2009-06-25 03:14:01 +0000 (Thu, 25 Jun 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/modules/PlayerNames.lua
fixes to coloring
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r339 | sylvanaar | 2009-06-25 02:46:01 +0000 (Thu, 25 Jun 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/modules/PlayerNames.lua
M /trunk/services/chatsections.lua
store arg12 in the GUID field of the chat table. use it to look up missing class colors only - for now
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r338 | sylvanaar | 2009-06-25 01:16:52 +0000 (Thu, 25 Jun 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/addon/addon.lua
M /trunk/services/chatsections.lua
added some code to include the player guid and info from that in the debug output. the current version of prat already worked on the ptr apparently
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Installation Guide
- Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
- Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
- Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
- Windows XP has a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
- WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
- WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- Mac Users
- StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
- Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
- Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "AddOns" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
- The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
- Start World of Warcraft
- Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.
Translations
When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".
TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.
If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.
See also: About "Out Of Date AddOns"
Mac Support
WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.
Directory Structure
World of Warcraft
|_ Interface
|_AddOns
|_*AddonName*
|_ *AddonName*.toc
|_ *AddonName*.xml
|_ *AddonName*.lua
|_ (possibly others as well)...
