TextField problem

I'm new to Flash and so my first movie is a simple image viewer/slideshow. The biggest problem I'm having is that the text in my dynamic textfields is not appearing. The textfields on the root level work fine -- text is assigned using both "variable = text" and "instance.text = text" and it shows up. But the textfields on other levels do not show up. I've used the target finder thing to map the path, and when I do a trace to test the value of the field, the field has a value, but it's just not showing. The color is black and alpha is 100. I have no idea what's going on here, and have not been able to find help anywhere. Any ideas?

Below is an FLA to help you. When you're working with fields inside clips, you work up from the root. For example:
_root.clip.level_2.text = "Level 2 Text";
And make sure that the movie clip that contains your field has been assigned an instance name.

Sincerely,
Jamie Michels www.thedarkcontent.com

Thanks, Jamie, for the quick response, and for your example. I checked my code and it looked exactly like you specified. Turns out the problem was with a masked layer -- apparently you have to embed fonts for dynamic text fields in order for them to appear with a mask. I wish the User Guide was clearer.

Thanks again,
Jared

Hi Jared,

My pleasure. I'm glad that you got it working. Best of luck.

Jamie