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Editor

Settings > UI > Editor Settings of the editing interface: dividers and moving Areas, the previews of media files, the Advanced Speech Editor's tag markers, and undo.

Layout

Setting	Default	Description
Resize step (Ctrl)	16	Dragging a divider between two Areas with Ctrl held moves it in steps of this many pixels.
Copy key (drag)	Ctrl	In Edit Layout mode, an Area dropped with this key held is copied, and the original stays in its place.
Swap key (drag)	Alt	In Edit Layout mode, an Area dropped on the middle of another with this key held swaps places with it. On some systems, holding Alt while dragging moves the whole window: choose another key there.

Each key can be Ctrl, Alt, Shift or Meta (Super / Cmd). When both are held, the copy key applies. See Edit Layout. Previews The width, in pixels, of the preview played beside the mouse pointer when a file is hovered in a dropdown. The height follows the file's proportions.

Setting	Default	Preview of
Portrait width	128	A portrait, in a Spoken Line.
Bust width	256	A bust, in a VN Play.
Background width	256	A background, in a BG Play.
Media image width	512	An image, in a Media Play.
Media video width	512	A video, in a Media Play.

Sprite Playback The speed, in frames per second, at which Candy Dialogue Creator plays animations that carry no speed of their own: sprite sheets and folders of frames.

Setting	Default	Used for
Portrait FPS	30	Portraits, in the Portrait Preview and in the dropdown previews.
Bust FPS	30	Busts, in the dropdown previews.
Background FPS	30	Backgrounds and Media Play images, in the dropdown previews.

These settings only affect the previews. Set them to the speed your game plays the files at, so that the previews match. Advanced Speech Editor A marker is a small character that stands for a hidden BBCode tag in the text. These settings apply to every Advanced Speech Editor without settings of its own (see Advanced Speech Editor).

Setting	Description
Tag markers	Off: no markers. On: a marker for every tag. Smart: a marker for a tag and its closing tag with nothing between them, and for the tags at the start or end of a line, so that the caret can be placed before or after them.
Marker character	The character a marker displays. One character.
Marker color	The color of the markers. It is lightened or darkened where it would blend into the text's background.

The marker color belongs to the theme chosen on the Theme page: each theme has its own. Right-click it to copy it, paste one, or Remove Override to restore the theme's. Undo

Setting	Default	Description
Maximum steps	25	The number of edits that can be undone. 0 means no limit.
Maximum memory (MB)	0	The memory the undo history can occupy. 0 means no limit.

When a limit is reached, the oldest steps are discarded. See Undo and Redo.