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October 24, 2019
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Cant change text field inside movie clip

  • October 24, 2019
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I have a movie clip symbol that I converted from a dynamic text field with the instance name "text2". When I try to add it as a child and then try to access the text field, the compiler throws:

Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.

var test = new Qwe(); //Qwe is the movie clip converted from dynamic text field
addChild(test);

test.text2.text ="535";  /instance name of the text field was text2.

 

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    Correct answer ClayUUID

    You don't have Advanced Layers enabled, do you?

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    ClayUUIDCorrect answer
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    October 24, 2019

    You don't have Advanced Layers enabled, do you?

    Participant
    October 24, 2019

    That's first time I ever even heard of it.  How do I check it?