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COMPONENTS OF SCRATCH DESKTOP

Let us now learn about the components of scratch desktop.

Title Bar Menu Bar

Tabs Go Button Stop Button

Stage Area
Block
Menu Script Backdrop

Sprite

Coding Area

Sprites Info Pane

• Title Bar: It is at the top of the Scratch window. It shows Scratch Desktop written on the left. The
right side of the toolbar has the three control buttons—Minimise, Maximize and Close.
• Menu Bar: It contains options and commands related to the projects that you create in Scratch. The
options are File, Edit, Tutorial and name of the Scratch project.

• Stage Area: It is similar to a stage in a play where everything takes place. You can watch stories, play
games and run your scratch projects on the stage. In Scratch, the background is called backdrop.
• Sprite: It is the actor who acts on the stage. Sprite is an object in Scratch that performs the function
on stage area. The default sprite in Scratch is an orange cat.

• Go Button: It is the green flag and when you click on it, it runs a Scratch program.
• Stop Button: It is the red button which on clicking stops the running Scratch program.
• Sprites Info Pane: It is just below the Stage area. It shows all the details of sprites and backdrops

used in a project. You can add, delete, see the name and location, increase and decrease the size
of a sprite. Similarly, you can add or change the backdrop.
• Block Menu: It displays the categories of blocks based on their function and use. These blocks within
the same category share the same colour which allow better distinction of the parts of a program.

• Coding Area: It is also called the scripts area where you stack your blocks to create scripts. If you
save a project with a script, the script will also be saved. When we click on a script, all the blocks
execute from top to bottom.
• Script: Script is a collection of a number of stacked blocks. It gives stepwise instructions to a sprite

to do something on the stage. Script is actually a program which gives the instructions in the form
of blocks. A script must have at least two blocks.

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