Can't interact with the Godot editor

Godot Version

4.4

Question

I am very new to Godot and game design in general so have been following a youtube tutorial. After some time away from working on it I have come back to the project but now find I am completely unable to click on the editor. Shortcuts still work and the project can still be run it is just the inability to mouse over and click on anything. I am not 100% sure but I feel it may be something to do with a window in the editor (bottom left of screenshot) but I have no idea how to get rid of it.

I’m going to assume you have some kind of script that has the tool tag attached to it, which means it runs inside the editor. And if said script puts some UI element on top of everything else, it can cause things like this to happen.

I recommend opening up the folder where your project is, then using a text editor such as Notepad in Windows, to open all script files (ending with .gd), and remove every mention of tool at the top of them, and see if that fixes the issue.

Amazing that worked, that would never have occurred to me but now I know! Thanks for your help.

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