ActionScript 3: Set the text of an animated Dynamic text instance

Question

I have a dynamic text field (textLabel) inside a Movie Clip (textMC). I am tring to set the text attribute like this:

textMC.textLabel.text = "this is my text";

This works fine, until I add key frames to textLabel. I need to animate textLabel. But when it hits a keyframe, it changes back to the text I created on the stage. How can I make the actionscript changes persistem over several keyframes?

Answer 1

Be sure in all the keyframes you textfield is named 'textLabel'. If in a frame it's called different then your code won't work.