Locking Layers half-works

[Boldlinedesign]

In Affinity Photo - I lock layers so they won't move or be selected, yet I can still delete things on those layers and when I click on the locked material on the image, it still selects it with blue outlines. When I lock a layer, I want nothing to get selected or for anything to be editable, etc.  Am I missing something?

[walt.farrell]

That's not what Locking does in the Affinity applications. From the Photo Help, with my emphasis:

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Locking is useful when you need to prevent a layer from being moved or transformed unintentionally.

 

[Boldlinedesign]

I uploaded a pic of what is happening - if I lock the black background layer and then click on it in the image, it gives me a blue bounding box and takes me to that locked layer. I can't move anything, but I'm now off the layer I was on and it's semi-selected. 

[walt.farrell]

Right. You can still select the locked layer. All locking does is prevent movement or transformation, as stated in Help.

[Boldlinedesign]

ok - What is the purpose of selecting the locked layer? I'd rather it didn't select anything on a locked layer at all. is there a way to set it to not select the bounding box of anything locked? Sometimes you want to lock a layer so you can focus on grabbing things in the layers above without interference from the locked layer.