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Last Update:	Aug. 8, 2008 (1 week ago)
Category:	Chat & Communication
Tags:	ace2, alts, chat, and prat
Project Manager:	sylvanaar
Website:	visit
Current Version:	Prat 2.0 (79894) (for World of Warcraft 2.4.3)
Downloads Today:	629
Downloads Total:	256,850
Favorites:	1,131
Comments:	196

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Created On:	Sept. 27, 2007
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Authors

sylvanaar

(Project Manager)

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About Prat 2.0

Note: The zip contains the all-in-one version of prat. If you would like to only load the module which you use, please pull out the Prat_* folders from the prat directory, and place them alongiside Prat in your addons folder.

Prat is a light framework for chat modules based on Ace2 libraries.

The Prat system consists of the core (Prat/Prat.lua) and a number of integrated Prat modules in the modules folder (Prat_Modules/modules/*). The core only provides a root slash command ("/prat") and registers a data file (PratDB). Each Prat module is a self-contained unit of functionality. You can choose to use some or all of the Prat modules depending on your individual needs. If you do not want to use a particular module, you can delete its file from the modules folder or you can toggle the module on/off as desired from inside the game.

The entire focus of the Prat system is to add chat related functionality to World of Warcraft. If you are looking for a feature or function that is not currently listed here as available or planned, then please take a moment to let the Prat Development Team know.

Why the name Prat?

That's a great question that I've seen asked quite often on the IRC channel. In theory the word Prat loosely translates to Chat in swedish. The system itself has nothing to do with Sweden, however inspiration for the name was drawn from thoughts of The Swedish Chef (Bork! Bork! Bork!), IKEA, Swiss Miss Hot Chocolate (Mmm..), Swedish Meatballs (Mmm..), and Swedish Swimsuit Models (Mmm..). It may help users to accept the name if they, too, think of these things. ^^

If you are a developer interested in contributing to the Prat project, please contact a team member. Note that there is also a basic skeleton module which can be used as an introduction and template: blank-module.lua, and a library PratPlugin_1.0.

Integrated Modules

These modules are included in the Prat folder:

AddonMessages by Sylvanaar - Toggles display of hidden addon channel messages (default=off).

Alias by Fin - Allows IRC/Unix-like aliasing of slash commands (default=off).

AltNames by Fin - Allows linking of alts to main names for display in chat messages (default=off).

ChatButtons by Prat Development Team - Toggles the chat menu and chat window buttons on and off (default=off).

ChannelNames by Prat Development Team - Shortens channel names in the chatframe.

ChannelColorMemory by Sylvanaar - Allows channel coloring by channel name instead of number (default=on).

ChannelReordering by Sylvanaar and SlackerJer - Reorders channels to your specification (default=off).

ChannelSeparator by Krtek - Separates various channel options in the Blizzard UI (default=on).

ChannelSticky by Prat Development Team - Enables channels to be sticky (default=on).

ChatLangButton by Derkyle - Toggles the language dialog button that displays on the right of the ChatFrame (default=off).

ChatLink by Krtek - Enables item linking in all channels (default=CHATLINKmode).

ChatLog by Prat Development Team - Automatically turns chat/combat logging on/off (default=off).

Clear by Fin - Adds a /clear command for clearing the contents of currently selected chat frame (default=off).

CopyChat by Sylvanaar - Options for editbox position, width, and backdrop alpha (default=attachedTop,widthChatFrame1,visibleBackdrop).

Editbox by Prat Development Team - Options for editbox position, width, and backdrop alpha (default=attachedTop,widthChatFrame1,visibleBackdrop).

EventNames by Roartindon - Toggles appending of the blizzard event name to each chat line (default=off).

Fading by Prat Development Team - Toggles the fading in chat windows on and off (default=off).

FontSize by Prat Development Team - Sets the font size for chat windows (default=12).

History by Krtek - Expands chat history options.

Justify by Curney - Sets the justification for chat windows (default=Left).

Keybindings by Krtek - Adds keybindings for different chat channels.

PlayerNames by Prat Development Team - Color player names by class, set brackets around player names (default=angledBrackets).

PopupMessage by Sylvanaar - Displays chat with your name in a large popup frame. (default=off)

Scroll by Prat Development Team - Enables mousewheel scrolling for chat windows (default=on).

Sounds by Prat Development Team - Plays sounds for certain chat types (default=off).

ServerNames by Prat Development Team - Formats the the server name in player links seen in the battlegrounds(default=off).

Substitutions by Sylvanaar - Provides basic chat substitutions (default=off).

TellTarget by Prat Development Team - Adds a slash command (/tt) to send a message to your target (default=on).

Timestamps by Prat Development Team - Adds timestamps to chat windows (default=on).

UrlCopy by Krtek - Makes URL copying easy (default=on).

1 Installation Guide
2 Translations
3 TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
4 Mac Support
5 Directory Structure

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 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.

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)...

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mzzpriss18 said
Aug. 20, 2008, 04:16AM (11 hours, 31 minutes ago)
Ive recently been having an issue with linking items in chat

when i shift click an item it doesnt send a link through, only the text for it. its not giving the item # and suck just plain text like,
Rune Thread not [Rune Thread] with the ability to right click and see the info on it. I see everyone elses links i just dont see mine and no one else can, any help would be great

v2.0 80138

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Nightshade722 said
Aug. 13, 2008, 08:29AM (1 week ago)
i was wondering if its at all possible to supress the chat hover entirely, i hate how the chat background appears. i dont need it to, im using the Tabs module so i can always see the tabs to change chat settings. if this is possible it would be a great module to write. default chat is for nubs, great addon, thank you :)

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sylvanaar said
Aug. 18, 2008, 01:57AM (2 days, 13 hours ago)
Yes. You need to set the "ChatFrameAlpha" in prat's chatframe module to X, and then you need to set the alpha of the blizzard chatframe to Y using the blizzard ui (right click the chat tab)

If X < Y then the hover fade will cease to function. The default value for X is 0.50. The default for Y is i think 0.00

So normally X > Y, so you have "hover".

Or to put it more simply - set the "ChatFrameAlpha" value to 0 in prat, this disables hover completely.

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lawlimnator said
Aug. 9, 2008, 04:34AM (1 week, 4 days ago)
I don't really know why, but yours was the only package that wouldn't automatically move with Curse Updater. After I got the first failure, it wouldn't even try anymore, it kept acting like it was up to date, but it wasn't.

Just thought you should know.

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ladyblayd said
July 28, 2008, 09:41PM (3 weeks, 1 day ago)
For some reason, I'm not getting messages instantly. I can type Hi in /say and not see it for a full minute later. Also, I'm not able to make the chat font uniform. The top is larger than the bottom. All the chat channel things are set to the same font size. I also can't move the chat buttons from the bottom of the chat box. halp.

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smallvile said
July 7, 2008, 03:48AM (1 month, 2 weeks ago)
Dammit, Prat keeps suppressing all the roll messages even though i want to take a look at them. I need to see whether the rest of my group rolled need or greed on an item before I roll on it. Anyone know how to fix this?

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sylvanaar said
July 11, 2008, 04:33AM (1 month, 1 week ago)
Are you certain its prat?

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Oryxtoo said
June 15, 2008, 05:36PM (2 months ago)
I just did a fresh install of WoW on my PC, and had to reinstall all of my add ons, and I was wondering if Prat ever had the option to intercept all slash commands by opening the text box automatically when you typed "/"? I had Prat before I reinstalled, and I remember being able to automatically type any slash command without having to hit the enter button. I'm not sure if Prat had this option, or if it was another mod doing this. =(

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Kroan said
Aug. 7, 2008, 02:08AM (1 week, 6 days ago)
That's not Prat. WoW does that automatically for me. Check your keybindings or Interface options.

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Emperorflydd said
June 12, 2008, 03:04PM (2 months, 1 week ago)
Can anybody help me pleaseeee xP Is there anyway at all to resize the chat window so its taller, so you can see more messages at once?

Thanks in advance!

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Thiril said
June 30, 2008, 10:33PM (1 month, 2 weeks ago)
yes, its the same as regular chat, hover curser over the pain until the tabs show, right click on the tab and unlock window, then hold right or left click i cant remeber but i think its right on the edges to resize the window :)

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Bidybag said
June 10, 2008, 07:17PM (2 months, 1 week ago)
When i right click on somebodys name i see the text "Copy text" about 20 times above their name.

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sylvanaar said
July 11, 2008, 04:41AM (1 month, 1 week ago)
Are you running any other chat addons?

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SexyKittey said
June 1, 2008, 12:23AM (2 months, 2 weeks ago)
I keep getting this when ever I try to open prat using the Fubar plugin button.

Date: 2008-05-31 20:15:43
ID: 52
Error occured in: Global
Count: 3
Message: ...e\AddOns\Prat\Prat_Modules\modules\Substitutions.lua line 467:
attempt to call method 'getInitialModulePatterns' (a nil value)
Debug:
[C]: getInitialModulePatterns()
...e\AddOns\Prat\Prat_Modules\modules\Substitutions.lua:467: BuildModuleOptions()
...e\AddOns\Prat\Prat_Modules\modules\Substitutions.lua:390: attr()
...ddOns\eePanels2\libs\Waterfall-1.0\Waterfall-1.0.lua:266:
...ddOns\eePanels2\libs\Waterfall-1.0\Waterfall-1.0.lua:263
...ddOns\eePanels2\libs\Waterfall-1.0\Waterfall-1.0.lua:299:
...ddOns\eePanels2\libs\Waterfall-1.0\Waterfall-1.0.lua:282
...ddOns\eePanels2\libs\Waterfall-1.0\Waterfall-1.0.lua:352: contentsFunc()
...ddOns\eePanels2\libs\Waterfall-1.0\Waterfall-1.0.lua:3940: Refresh()
...ddOns\eePanels2\libs\Waterfall-1.0\Waterfall-1.0.lua:4134: SetContent()
...ddOns\eePanels2\libs\Waterfall-1.0\Waterfall-1.0.lua:1636: SetTree()
...ddOns\eePanels2\libs\Waterfall-1.0\Waterfall-1.0.lua:468:
...ddOns\eePanels2\libs\Waterfall-1.0\Waterfall-1.0.lua:430
[C]: Open()
...terface\AddOns\Prat\Prat_Waterfall\PratWaterfall.lua:165: Open()
...terface\AddOns\Prat\Prat_Waterfall\PratWaterfall.lua:193: Toggle()
Prat\Prat_FuBar\PratFu.lua:341: OnClick()
...s\AtlasLoot\Libs\FuBarPlugin-2.0\FuBarPlugin-2.0.lua:947:
...s\AtlasLoot\Libs\FuBarPlugin-2.0\FuBarPlugin-2.0.lua:944
FuBar\FuBar.lua:1200:
FuBar\FuBar.lua:1198
AddOns:
Align
AtlasLoot, vAtlasLoot Enhanced v4.05.00
AtlasLootBCInstances, v4.05.00
AtlasLootCrafting, v4.05.00
AtlasLootOldInstances, v4.05.00
AtlasLootRepFactions, v4.05.00
AtlasLootSetsandPvP, v4.05.00
AtlasLootWorldLoot, v4.05.00
AucAdvanced, v5.0.PRE.3104
AucFilterBasic, v5.0.PRE.3104 (BillyGoat)
AucStatPurchased, v5.0.PRE.3104 (BillyGoat)
AucStatSimple, v5.0.PRE.3104 (BillyGoat)
AucStatStdDev, v5.0.PRE.3104 (BillyGoat)
Bongos, v1.3
BongosAB, v2.1
BongosCastBar
BongosRoll
BongosStats
BongosXP
ClearFont2, v2.4
ClearFont2FontPack, v1.0
CurseProfiler, v2.0 2008-05-22T04:25:08
cyCircled, v0.5
cyCircledOnyx, v2.4.0.0
DoubleWide
EasyUnlock, v3.0
eePanels2, v2.0
EnhTooltip, v5.0.PRE.3104
FuBarBagFu, v2.0
FuBarClockFu, v3.0
FuBarDurabilityFu, v2.0
FuBarGuildFu, v2.4
FuBarLocationFu, v3.0
FuBarMoneyFu, v20400-1
FuBarPerformanceFu, v2.0
FuBar, v60201
Informant, v5.0.PRE.3104
MinimapButtonFrame, v1.7a
Necrosis, v2.2
Omen, vOmen r72207 / Threat-2.0 r71636
OpenAll, v1
Outfitter, v4.2.1
PitBull, v3.0r74494
Prat, v2.0 67125
RatingBuster, v1.3.7 (r66013)
Recount, v74938
sct, v6.1
simpleMinimap, v20003-4
Skinner, v2.4.1
SphereLoader, v0.1
Stubby, v52
Swatter, v5.0.PRE.3104
WIM, v2.4.15
DBMAPI

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noccy80 said
May 26, 2008, 10:38PM (2 months, 3 weeks ago)
Updated Prat yesterday. Now, for some reason I only see *4* fonts available for the chat. Looking in the ClearFont2 menu, I find about 20. These are added by the ClearFont2 FontPack, but for some reason Prat doesn't detect these. Any solution? Arial Narrow looks crap compared to Calibri :(

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Protector said
May 27, 2008, 02:22PM (2 months, 3 weeks ago)
Did you d/l version Prat 2.0 (67130)
or the correct current version Prat-r73944.zip from wowace?

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noccy80 said
May 29, 2008, 01:05AM (2 months, 3 weeks ago)
Latest version from Curse. I use the Curse Client to update my addons since they at least know how to code. WoWAce updater is built using the .Net framework, which I abhore. Problem sorted itself tho; I now see all the shared media fonts :)

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airdip said
May 26, 2008, 01:07PM (2 months, 3 weeks ago)
awesome addon realy worth it 5/5

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Blindgr said
May 26, 2008, 11:17AM (2 months, 3 weeks ago)
the version above is working just fine m8 .Only error detected by my baud error frame is this :
Prat\Prat_Modules\modules\Substitutions.lua:847: attempt to index global 'ICON_TAG_RAID_TARGET_STAR' (a nil value)
Count: 1

Call Stack:
[C]: ?
...e\AddOns\Prat\Prat_Modules\modules\Substitutions.lua:847: in main chunk

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Protector said
May 26, 2008, 03:44PM (2 months, 3 weeks ago)
No, if you goto there file site (http://files.wowace.com/Prat/
)you will see this is an old build and it don't work correctly and has lots of errors. This is the current build Prat-r73944.zip and below is the prat.zip file both dated may 15 08

Go and look and see the build history before saying i'm wrong.

From:
http://files.wowace.com/sw-p.html

Prat
1 week ago
Chat/Communication A framework for chat frame modules.
Prat Development ... 73944

I just think the author made a mistake of uploading the wrong version. An honest mistake.

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