Why does 'delete stack' sometimes not work?

[Richard Gaskin]

Graham Samuel wrote:

 > I have a stack “myMainStack”, which has quite a few substacks
 > - they’re palettes which user can open to access tools etc. All of
 > them have their ‘cantDelete’ property set to false.
...
 > If I then execute
 >
 >  delete stack “myMainStack”
 >
 > from the message box, I get
 >
 >> Message execution error:
 >>
 >> Error description: Object: stack locked, or object's script is
 >> executing


I'm able to see that error when the mainstack's cantDelete has been set 
to true.

You note the substacks have their cantDelete set to false - is that also 
true of the mainstack?

Earlier versions of your code explicitly set the cantDelete to true - 
could some of that still be in play?

You may want to modify your delete statement with:

   put the cantDelete of stack "myMainStack"
   delete stack "myMainStack"

That will allow you to at least rule out cantDelete if you see "false" 
in the Message Box.

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