Any way to persistently lock messages?

[J. Landman Gay]

Does the "lock messages" icon in the toolbar at the top do it?

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Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
On November 21, 2025 11:08:26 AM David Epstein via use-livecode 
<use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> I am wondering if any other users have faced or solved this problem:
>
> I have over the years constantly revised some basic tools I use to create 
> and edit stacks where I store substantive information of various kinds 
> (tables, images, text).  The scripts of those substantive stacks send 
> messages to be handled by my “tool” stack; but as a result of later 
> revisions of my tool stack some of those handlers have disappeared.  So if 
> I simply want to inspect old substantive stacks I am stymied by error messages.
>
> One solution would be an ability to lock messages persistently, but I do 
> not see a way to do this.  I can imagine a workaround that would lock 
> messages, then copy the content but not the scripts of the objects in my 
> substantive stack to some new stack  where I could study them.
>
> But I wonder if someone has already done this or has a different idea.
>
> Many thanks.
>
> David Epstein
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