The block workspace
The workspace is the large scrolling canvas in the Code tab where you assemble scripts by snapping blocks together. It sits to the right of the blocks palette and shows the scripts of the currently selected sprite or the stage.
Working with blocks
- Drag a block from the palette into the workspace to add it. Drag blocks by their top-left to move a whole stack, or grab a block lower in a stack to pull it and everything below it away.
- Snap blocks together by dropping one near the connection point of another. A grey shadow shows where it will attach.
- Delete a block by dragging it back onto the palette, or by right-clicking it and choosing Delete.
- Duplicate copies a block and everything below it. Add Comment attaches a note. Copy to Backpack stores the stack in the backpack.
- Right-click the workspace background for Clean up Blocks (auto-arranges every script into tidy columns), Add Comment, and options to collapse or expand comments.
- Blocks copy and paste with
Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V, and the workspace has its own Undo and Redo (Ctrl+Z/Ctrl+Shift+Z).
Comments
Comments are yellow sticky notes you can attach to a block or leave floating on the background. Drag one to move it, drag its corner to resize it, and click the triangle to collapse it to a single line. Comments are saved with the project, so they are a good place to document how a script works.
Zooming and panning
Controls in the bottom-right corner zoom in, zoom out, and reset zoom. You can also zoom with Ctrl and the scroll wheel, and pan by dragging the empty background or scrolling. The workspace remembers its zoom and scroll position per project.
Running and highlighting
Click any block or stack to run it once. While a script runs, its blocks glow; this is how the debugger and the "glow" indicators show you what is executing. A block that reports a value shows the value in a bubble when you click it.
Large projects and deferred rendering
RemixWarp does not render every block up front. When a project has many scripts (roughly 100 blocks or more), the workspace loads scripts lazily, rendering only the ones near your view and filling in the rest as you scroll. This keeps switching sprites and opening big projects fast. A consequence worth knowing: tools that count or search blocks read them from the project data (the VM), not from what is currently drawn on screen, so they stay accurate even for scripts you have not scrolled to.
To move quickly around a big project, use the find bar to jump to a block, variable, or custom block, and workspace bookmarks to save and return to script locations.