help with dynamic text in animate cc

[cristianr79668674]

hello how are you, i have this problem in a dynamic text i want numbers to appear from a simple sum, my code is this

Var sum: Number = 1;

var counter: Number;

counter = sum +1; Text.text = "" + counter;

but it doesn't appear in the dynamic text and the instance of the dynamic text is called Text

[JoãoCésar]

Hi.

It's because you didn't initialize the counter variable.

It should be something like:

var counter:Number = 0;

Regards,

JC

[ClayUUID]

That would be the solution if he was doing counter++, which he's not.

cristianrnumbers, what do you see if you replace the text display code with:

Text.text = "HELLO";

?

Also, using "Text" as an instance name is a terrible, no good, very bad idea. "Text" is a property name. Even if it works, it leads to confusing-looking code. Name your textfields descriptively, or at the very least something like "mytext" or "text1" or whatever.