I’ve been trying out Candlestick, and it’s a really great fork of Wick Editor.
However, I noticed that when I set up a clip in the timeline for tweening, a blue box appears around the clip. This box also appears when I render as a PNG sequence.
Is there any way to turn this off? Or is this just a glitch?
just click the 9 key
Its an if statement that has been commented out in the wick code. It needs to be sorted by the developers. I’ve fixed in my fork but not ready for public yet.
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oh, you just press the 9 key and its gone, i didnt think it would be that hard 
This is a visual thing made to show bounding boxes. You can stop it from appearing by pressing the 9 key on the editor.
i did notice that the editor never really teaches you that you can hide the clip borders. for now you can only toggle with 9 but we should probably add a button toggle in a future update.
also as luke pointed out, if you are on candlestick’s test website, there is a bug that forces the box to always show, even in playback and exports - that will be fixed before release.
Seeing that multiple people have been telling me that the 9 key turns off those borders, I checked the hotkey settings, and yeah that is the case.
Thanks for letting me know that it isn’t a glitch, guys. And yeah, having a button that toggles it on and off does sound nice.
I’ve been using the standalone Candlestick application, and it’s happening there, too.
Coming back to this, I’ve animated some buttons for a Henry Stickmin fan game I’m making, and I end up switching between Candlestick for some vector skewing and animations and Wick Editor for hiding the blue borders of clips when rendering. Since Wick has translucent 1-pixel-long black bars on the top and bottom of rendered images, I just crop them out and re-export each frame in Krita.
As for the sample image I shared at the beginning of this thread, that was for an April Fools special. What I ended up doing for those blue borders was mask them out in Krita because I was cautious enough to set up some open space in case if I had to edit anything out in Krita prior to putting the finished frames in a spritesheet packer.
Okay, I did some more testing, and it appears that pressing the 9 key to hide the blue borders doesn’t happen in the Candlestick 1.0.1 alpha from December 2025, but it does work in the browser version and the beta version from November 2025.
I just assumed that the December 2025 alpha was more up-to-date because of the date compared to the November 2025 beta, so I’m just gonna use the November 2025 beta instead on my PC and laptop.
Just thought I’d share this javascript change in the wickengine.js to be sure what I found is understood by the Candlestick team. wickengine.zip (492.4 KB)
I’m pretty sure this fixed the boundary box colouring.
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