How to check if Paragraph / Line / Text / ... is overflowing

[device cmyk]

Hi 🙂

I am looking for a way to detect if a particular range of text is overflowing.

I have found the "overflows" property on Story and TextFrame, but I am missing something similar on Paragraph / Line / Text / ...

Am I missing something, or does anyone have a good method to check this?

[brianp311]

Only a text frame or story overflows. How does a paragraph or line overflow if not in its containing frame? You can always look at a line or paragraphs parent text frames or parent story.

[device cmyk]

Hi @brianp311 🙂 Excuse my imprecise wording.

What I want to check is if the text is visible in the container or not.

I am not interested in checking the state of the container but in the text itself.

I imagine something like "isOverset" – Sort of like the isValid-property.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

But that's exactly how it needs to be done - and how @Marc Autret code works - checks for existence of a ParentTextFrame. 

[Marc Autret · Accepted solution]

Hi @device cmyk,

Testing whether the last InsertionPoint of the text has no parent text frame should usually work:

function isOverset(/*Text*/tx)
//----------------------------------
// `tx` :: any valid, singular text object (Paragraph, Line, Word, Character...)
// => bool
{
   return !(tx.insertionPoints[-1].parentTextFrames||0).length;
}


// Test (assuming the selection has a parent story)
var word = app.selection[0].parentStory.words[-1];
alert( isOverset(word) );

But:

• It may not be the quickest method (?)

• A special treatment is required when tables/cells are involved.

Best,

Marc

[device cmyk]

Hi @Marc Autret.

Thank you for your answer! It's a big help!