Tables inside overset text frames

Question

Hi everybody!
Im trying to write a script to set the width of all tables in a document equal to its parent text frame, I was succesful, but
the tables that are overflowed do not get resized. I have only come up with a way to find if there is an overflowed text frame
but not to find and overflowed text frame contents. PLS HELP!
heres my code:
//resizes tables
var myTextFrames = app.activeDocument.textFrames.everyItem();
var myTables = myTextFrames.tables.everyItem().getElements();
for (var i = 0; i < myTables.length; i++){
         var myTextFrame =  myTables[i].parent;
                    var myWidth = myTextFrame.visibleBounds[3] - myTextFrame.visibleBounds[1];
            myTables[i].width = myWidth;
//finds a textframe with overset text
var myOverset = app.activeDocument.textFrames.everyItem().getElements();
                for(var x = 0; x < myOverset.length; x++){
                    if(myOverset[x].overflows == true){   
                    alert("There is overset text")

Answer 1

@Kai – cool. Maybe just a little thing:
You suppose that the first text frame of a given story has the same width as the one with the overset (holding a table in the overflow).
So, if we have the following situation:
A table in the overflow will get too wide after running your script:
Instead of the first text frame in the story we could address the last one directly with:
else if ( container.constructor.name == "Story" ) {
    var myTextFrame = container.textContainers[0].endTextFrame;
And the result will be:
The property endTextFrame is in the class of TextFrame.
We could also have written:
else if ( container.constructor.name == "Story" ) {
    var myTextFrame = container.textContainers[container.textContainers.length-1];
Uwe