Hello,

is the Scratch offline Editor (Scratch Desktop Setup 3.6.0.exe) compatible with Windows 7? I'm teaching Scratch in an Elementary School with oooold Win7-PCs, and the Online Editor doesn't run properly, so I'd like to use the Offline Editor. On the download page it says Win10, but maybe it does indeed run on Win7, too?!

Thanks.

TLDR: Maybe. According to the Scratch Wiki:

For Scratch to run properly, the following minimum system requirements are needed:

Windows 10 or later or macOS 10.13 or later, though users have reported successfully running the editor on Windows 7
Approximately 400 MB of free hard drive space

However, if the online editor doesn't work properly, the offline editor wouldn't either.

LuciferMorningstar74 wrote:

Hello,

is the Scratch offline Editor (Scratch Desktop Setup 3.6.0.exe) compatible with Windows 7? I'm teaching Scratch in an Elementary School with oooold Win7-PCs, and the Online Editor doesn't run properly, so I'd like to use the Offline Editor. On the download page it says Win10, but maybe it does indeed run on Win7, too?!

Thanks.

I tried it on my dad's old computer which runs Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP(long story), the 3.0 editor still worked, but it worked very slow.
So I would give a yes, but beware some lag.

Note that you cannot install on Windows Vista or older.

apple502j wrote:

Note that you cannot install on Windows Vista or older.

It's possible, but it takes a long time to adapt it.

LuciferMorningstar74 wrote:

Hello,

is the Scratch offline Editor (Scratch Desktop Setup 3.6.0.exe) compatible with Windows 7? I'm teaching Scratch in an Elementary School with oooold Win7-PCs, and the Online Editor doesn't run properly, so I'd like to use the Offline Editor. On the download page it says Win10, but maybe it does indeed run on Win7, too?!

Thanks.

Ok, I am currently using a Windows 7 so the Scratch Offline Editor does work and it can be a little glitchy sometimes. Also, the Online Editor should work unless your model came out 2009, or something like that.

I use Windows 7, proof here:
My browser / operating system: Windows 7, Chrome 80.0.3987.106, No Flash version detected
and it works fine.
The only problem is that it doesn't install the icon, so I can't use the start menu to find it, or anything like that.

Thanks for your help. Unfortunately I was informed that I'm not allowed to install Scratch 3 Offline Editor, I can only choose from a certain pool of programs and there is only Scratch 2 available.

Which brings me back to my original problem: the not working online editor.
I'm using the latest Firefox, no extensions active / fresh profile. I load the scratch website. Everything loads fine but - in the right upper window where the cat should be visible, there is nothing. Just a white area. The cat is there, you can move it if you click at the spot where it should be and the position values change accordingly, but it's invisible. And no, the visibility of the cat is of course set to on. Whatever I do, the right top area stays blank, even if I add a background or another sprite. There's no way to get the content visible! This makes programming impossible.

I have no idea what's wrong with the editor. It happens on all 15 school computers. In December all was working, now it's broken and the admins of the school say they haven't change anything regarding Firefox.

Is there anyone who had the same problem?

hey pals i downloaded the latest version of scratch on my windows 7 ultimate and it worked just fine,so indeed it does work on windows 7

LuciferMorningstar74 wrote:

Thanks for your help. Unfortunately I was informed that I'm not allowed to install Scratch 3 Offline Editor, I can only choose from a certain pool of programs and there is only Scratch 2 available.

Which brings me back to my original problem: the not working online editor.
I'm using the latest Firefox, no extensions active / fresh profile. I load the scratch website. Everything loads fine but - in the right upper window where the cat should be visible, there is nothing. Just a white area. The cat is there, you can move it if you click at the spot where it should be and the position values change accordingly, but it's invisible. And no, the visibility of the cat is of course set to on. Whatever I do, the right top area stays blank, even if I add a background or another sprite. There's no way to get the content visible! This makes programming impossible.

I have no idea what's wrong with the editor. It happens on all 15 school computers. In December all was working, now it's broken and the admins of the school say they haven't change anything regarding Firefox.

Is there anyone who had the same problem?

Scratch uses WebGL for drawing sprites. You can check if WebGL works in your browser here.

LuciferMorningstar74 wrote:

It happens on all 15 school computers

I mean, it's a school computer.

it's a joke

builderluke wrote:

LuciferMorningstar74 wrote:

It happens on all 15 school computers

I mean, it's a school computer.

it's a joke

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