Aligning and Snapping to Anchored Objects

Question

Is there a setting that will allow me to snap other objects to anchored object?
Currently, everytime I want to align or snap to an anchored object, I have to remove the anchor, align, then re-apply the anchor. Over, and over. Why don't the snaps recognize the anchored object?

Answer 1

Jongware,
You're wrong on a couple of counts:
1. The parent of the inline/anchored frame is the character that holds it.
2. The parentStory is (in effect) the same as myTF.texts[0].
I just used Fred's code and did this with it, having created a document with a text frame holding just the word "Hello" and it worked:
myDoc = app.documents[0];
setupFindText("Hello");
myFinds = myDoc.findText();
myTF = myFinds[0].insertionPoints[-1].textFrames.add();
myAnchStory = myTF.parentStory;
myAnchStory.texts[0].contents = "What?";
function setupFindText(find, change, wholeWd, caseSense, foots, hidLayers, lockedLayers, lockedStories, masters) {
  app.findTextPreferences = null;
  app.changeTextPreferences = null;
  try { app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = find } catch(e) {};
  try {app.changeTextPreferences.changeTo = change } catch(e) {};
  app.findChangeTextOptions.properties = {
    caseSensitive:(caseSense == null ? false : caseSense),
    wholeWord:(wholeWd == null ? false : wholeWd),
    includeFootnotes:(foots == null ? false : foots),
    includeHiddenLayers:(hidLayers == null ? false : hidLayers),
    includeLockedLayersForFind:(lockedLayers == null ? false : lockedLayers),
    includeLockedStoriesForFind:(lockedStories == null ? false : lockedStories),
    includeMasterPages:(masters == null ? false : masters)
} // end setupFindText
Dave