Problem with renaming nodes

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ap87

Hi, new here. My problem is that sometimes I cannot rename a node onto a scene: just nothing happens when I click on "rename node" or even if I double click it.

I read on https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/27293 that a person had the same problem, but it edited the post writing this sentence:

"EDIT: Okay, I figured out what the problem comes from : One of the child is in tool mode and draws a trajectory by adding children to the scene. This somehow has to do something with this renaming issue. Deactivating trajectory drawing solves the problem. But still I would not say there is no issue here."

But I did not understand what is the "tool mode" neither what means "drawing a trajectory by adding children to the scene".

Suggestions? Thanks

DaveTheCoder

tool scripts run inside the editor, and let you access the scene tree of the currently edited scene. This is a powerful feature which also comes with caveats, as the editor does not include protections for potential misuse of tool scripts. Be extremely cautious when manipulating the scene tree, especially via Node.queue_free, as it can cause crashes if you free a node while the editor runs logic involving it.

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/plugins/running_code_in_the_editor.html

Your issue might have a different cause (but I don't know what it is). Do any of your scripts have "tool" at the beginning?