The Scratch Team is pleased to announce the beta version of the Scratch 2.0 Offline Editor is available. It currently works only on Mac and Windows.

You can install it and find out more here:
http://scratch.mit.edu/scratch2download/

Please leave us feedback and information about any issues here. Be sure to let us know what version of Mac or Windows you're using. Screenshots are always helpful.

Thanks!
Shane
(on behalf of the Scratch Team)

It wouldn't install when I used Chrome 30.0.1599.14 dev on Mac OSX 10.7.5. It said that I needed to install Adobe Air, even though I already had it, and when I clicked “Install Adobe Air” it said that it couldn't access my hard drive. I tried it on Firefox 24.0 Beta and it worked fine, though.

SilverEagle wrote:

Ok, downloaded it, played around with it for thirty seconds, and found that the substitute for right click on Windows (Ctrl + Left Click) doesn't work. So now I can't delete variables (My mouse only has left click), can't clean up the scripts, etc.

I hope that you add this later in the alpha version! It's really useful.

Try Shift+click (or Ctrl + click)– does that work for you?

djdolphin wrote:

It wouldn't install when I used Chrome 30.0.1599.14 dev on Mac OSX 10.7.5. It said that I needed to install Adobe Air, even though I already had it, and when I clicked “Install Adobe Air” it said that it couldn't access my hard drive. I tried it on Firefox 24.0 Beta and it worked fine, though.

In Chrome did you see a yellow bar at the top of the screen asking for permission to run? Unless you click it, it won't install. I'm glad it installed on Firefox for you.

natalie wrote:

djdolphin wrote:

It wouldn't install when I used Chrome 30.0.1599.14 dev on Mac OSX 10.7.5. It said that I needed to install Adobe Air, even though I already had it, and when I clicked “Install Adobe Air” it said that it couldn't access my hard drive. I tried it on Firefox 24.0 Beta and it worked fine, though.

In Chrome did you see a yellow bar at the top of the screen asking for permission to run? Unless you click it, it won't install. I'm glad it installed on Firefox for you.

I did click allow before, but I just tried again on Chrome, and I didn't get the hard drive error again. I'm guessing that you need to reload the page after allowing it to access your computer for it to work.

YAY

I'm already having problems with the Adobe AIR installer. Slows down my computer, keeps freezing, so annoying…

Do extensions work in the offline editor?

nathanprocks wrote:

Do extensions work in the offline editor?

Not yet…

Woohoo!

Check out the wiki article that shows what's different and new from the online editor

PonyoPenguin wrote:

I'm already having problems with the Adobe AIR installer. Slows down my computer, keeps freezing, so annoying…

Can you explain more? What kind of computer are you on? It can take awhile for AIR to download and install. Did you get it to work? I hope so!

natalie wrote:

PonyoPenguin wrote:

I'm already having problems with the Adobe AIR installer. Slows down my computer, keeps freezing, so annoying…

Can you explain more? What kind of computer are you on? It can take awhile for AIR to download and install. Did you get it to work? I hope so!

Adobe Air took about a minute for me on Windows 8, Internet Explorer 10, and the Scratch program itself took about 3 minutes in total. I just wanted to tell you that the download was the quickest I've ever seen in my life