Engine.editor_hint is always invalid

[TheYellowArchitect]

Godot version

4.0 beta2

System information

Artix (Arch Linux without systemd), NVIDIA GTX-1050 Ti

Issue description

Engine._editor_hint is a boolean value which returns true if on the editor, false if non-editor. Problem is, it doesn't work at all. It does compile without error, but whenever it checks against that logic in runtime, it gives invalid index error.

Steps to reproduce

• Create a new/empty project
• Create any kind of node
• Attach a script to it
• Copy-paste this code:

extends Node2D

func _ready():
	if not Engine.editor_hint:
		print("This never reaches here lol")

• Play/Run the scene

Minimal reproduction project

See above. Just copypaste the code into 1 script lol

[gongpha]

In 4.0, the editor_hint property was replaced with is_editor_hint method which returns boolean too.

print(Engine.is_editor_hint())

[TheYellowArchitect]

is_editor_hint does work. If indeed it replaced editor_hint why is editor_hint even a choice? I thank you for fixing my mini bug, but anyway, I will keep this issue open until editor_hint is completely removed, because the user/coder will be baited by this

[akien-mga]

There is a compilation error in your screenshot...

[TheYellowArchitect]

@akien-mga the compilation error is on runtime. This should be caught in compiling/saving.

[TheYellowArchitect]

Nevermind, the reasoning behind compiler not catching these errors are explained in
godotengine/godot-proposals#5549

Related to this issue: #66948