Settings

Settings

Application preferences. Open with Ctrl+, or Settings → Preferences….

Tabs

Tab	What's there
Workspace	Grid style, color picker swatch, spacing px
Preview	Toggle preview window chrome and console — see below
Defaults	Default save location, default form width / height
Editor	Editor command for Event Handlers — Auto / VS Code / Notepad++ / IDLE / Custom
Autosave	Interval (minutes), enable/disable, autosave folder
Notifications	Reset dismissed warnings
Appearance	Theme dropdown — Light / Dark / System (planned)

Editor tab

Picks which editor opens when you double-click a handler, hit F7, or follow any Open in editor entry.

Preset	Behavior
Auto	Tries VS Code → Notepad++ → IDLE in order
VS Code	Opens project folder + jumps to the line
Notepad++	Lightweight fallback
IDLE	Always works — runs python -m idlelib
Custom	Free-form command with {file}, {line}, {folder}, {python} placeholders

The dropdown auto-flips to Custom if you hand-edit the command. VS Code is the recommended pick — a CTkMaker VS Code extension is on the roadmap.

Preview tab

Controls how the Preview window looks and where preview output goes.

Setting	Options	Effect
Show preview tools	On (default) / Off	On: orange ring, 🟠 PREVIEW — title prefix, floating Save (F12) / Copy (F11) buttons. Off: bare window — no ring, no title prefix, no buttons.
Preview console mode	In-app (recommended) / Windows console / Off	Where print(), logging.*, and crash tracebacks go — see Console for details.

Console mode	What you get
In-app	Output streams into the Console panel — color-coded, filterable, searchable
Windows console	Separate cmd window with live output; crashes pause on Press Enter to close…
Off	Output discarded; preview spawns silently

Turn the tools toggle off for clean screenshots; pair with console mode = Off for a fully silent run.

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See also — Projects · Interface Overview · Preview