Resetting the anchor position of a textFrameItem?

Why does this not work? The textFrameItem.anchor behaves as if it is a read only value but it isn't supposed to be. What am I doing wrong?
thanks in advance,
gmck
function pointText(onLayer,str){
    var pointText = onLayer.textFrames.add();
    pointText.contents = str;
    alert(pointText.anchor);
    pointText.anchor = [100,100];
    alert(pointText.anchor);
pointText(doc.activeLayer,'text');

I can't say that I've moved type before by the anchor… I get Not implemented kicked back…? It doesn't appear that you have anything wrong…

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THANK YOU SO MUCH :-)
I didn't knew this shortcut as I didn't have to use it anyway.
but it's weird because all the other tools like even the circular gradient tool have their point visible.
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