Hi Pooja,
This is a very serious limitation of the DOM that we cannot directly access the parent text frame of a Cell object (provided that it actually belongs to such component).
In the case you point out —a Cell that entirely overflows, i.e. myCell.insertionPoints[0].parentTextFrames.length===0— I don't know any way to get the actual parent frame. The only approach I see is to parse the parentRow of the targeted cell and to look if any other cell in that row can access to a parent frame, provided that all cells of a specific row should share the same parent frame. Of course, this workaround will not work if every cell of the row entirely overflows!
Here is the snippet I suggest from there:
function getCellFrame(/*Cell*/c)
// -------------------------------------
// Try to find the TextFrame that 'contains' c (if any)
// Return the TextFrame if found, otherwise:
// => NULL if the tf cannot be determined
// => FALSE if sth goes wrong
{
var a, i, t;
if( !(c instanceof Cell) )
return false;
if( (a=c.insertionPoints[0].parentTextFrames).length )
return a[0];
a = c.parentRow.cells.everyItem().insertionPoints[0].parentTextFrames;
i = a.length;
while( i-- ){ if( t=a[i][0] ) break; }
return t || null;
}
Would be interested in whether our colleagues know a better solution.
@+
Marc
