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Settings

The Settings button in the menu bar opens the settings window. It controls how the editor looks and how your projects run. Settings are organised into a sidebar of pages, grouped into General, Appearance, Tools, and Advanced. Every row has a ? button that reveals a short explanation, and many link out to fuller documentation.

General​

General holds the settings most people reach for, under three headers:

  • Featured:
    • 60 FPS runs scripts 60 times a second instead of 30. An inline link lets you pick any custom framerate.
    • Interpolation smooths sprite motion between frames. See interpolation.
    • High Quality Pen renders pen at higher resolution. See high quality pen.
    • Warp Timer stops long or infinite loops from freezing the project. See warp timer.
  • Remove Limits: Infinite Clones, Remove Fencing, and Remove Miscellaneous Limits lift Scratch's built-in caps. See removing limits, infinite clones, and remove fencing.
  • Danger Zone: set a custom stage size, and Store settings in project so your chosen options (and optionally your theme) are re-applied whenever the project loads.

Language sets the editor's language. Keyboard Shortcuts opens the rebindable shortcut manager.

Appearance​

Open Theme in the sidebar, then choose a tab:

  • Appearance controls tabs, window chrome, and menu bar layout and visibility.
  • Blocks chooses block colours. See themes.
  • Wallpaper sets the editor background image, opacity, darkness, and grid.
  • Fonts chooses the editor font.
  • Editor groups stage controls, overlays, sound, screenshots, the block palette, and interface controls into tabs.
  • Loading screen customises the project loading screen.

Tools​

  • Version Control sets your commit author name and email, the default branch name, and whether to commit automatically on save. See git.
  • Variable Manager configures the variable manager: default view, live updates, and display limits.
  • Debugger holds the debugger toggles: highlight running blocks, and various logging options.
  • Autosave configures automatic restore points and their frequency. See restore points.

On the desktop app a Desktop page adds app-level options (update channel, microphone and camera, hardware acceleration, and more).

Advanced​

The Experimental page holds settings that are still being tested:

  • Real Layer Indexes changes how sprite layer order is stored, removing the limit on the number of layers.
  • Case Sensitive Lists makes list values case-sensitive, which can speed up list-heavy projects at the cost of vanilla compatibility. See variables and lists.

Some runtime behaviour is also covered on dedicated pages: disabling the compiler and cloud variables.

Storing settings in a project​

Most of these settings apply to the editor for everyone. To make a project always open with specific options (for example a custom stage size or 60 FPS), use Store settings in project on the General page. The chosen options, and optionally the theme, are saved into the project and re-applied when it loads.

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