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Prat Altnames module help

Hi!
I downloaded the Prat 3.0 addon yesterday and love it. A lot of the features it has are exactly what i was looking for.

The main reason i downloaded it was for the Altnames module (im terrible at remembering all my guildies various alts :s)

The problem im having is that i cant seem to link peoples alts to their mains without opening the addon settings and doing it that way which is quite cumbersome to do every time. Is there some kind of /command to be able to do it in chat? or a way of doing it without having to go into the settings everytime?

Thanks
A person surrounded by altoholics

I hit the same pain. My solution was targeted. The "alts" addon uses lib alts just like prat does but provides a much better ui for setting mains. I use that and prat is now just a display system for me.

That works perfectly for me.

Thanks for the suggestion. If i am unable to to resolve the issue using just Prat then this addon you mention might be worth a go.

This is dry-coded, so it might not be 100% right, but something like this should add the slash commands you're looking for. This would have to be put into an addon or run at load-time by something like WowLua or _DevPad.

Code:

local function PrintError(message)

        DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage(msg, 1, 0, 0)

end



local function GetAltModule()

        if not Prat then

                PrintError("Prat is not loaded!")

                return

        end

        

        local module = Prat:GetModule("AltNames", true)

        

        if not module then

                PrintError("The AltNames module is not loaded!")

                return

        end

        

        return module

end



SLASH_PRAT_ADDALT1 = "/addalt"

SlashCmdList["PRAT_ADDALT"] = function(args)

        local alt, main = strmatch(args, '(%S+)%s+(%S+)')

        

        if not main or not alt then

                PrintError("Invalid arguments to /addalt! Syntax is: /addalt ALT MAIN")

                return

        end



        local altModule = GetAltModule()        

        if not altModule then return end

        

        altModule:addAlt(alt.." "..main)        

end



SLASH_PRAT_DELALT1 = "/delalt"

SlashCmdList["PRAT_DELALT"] = function(alt)

        if not alt then

                PrintError("Invalid arguments to /delalt! Syntax is : /delalt ALT")

                return

        end

        

        local altModule = GetAltModule()        

        if not altModule then return end

        

        altModule:delAlt(alt)

end