Help with displaying text in a dynamic text box

programming flash
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I am trying to do a tutorial with this book I have and I can’t get the “welcome message” to be displayed from my dynamic text box. I tried the “completed” .fla that they supplied and it doesn’t show up there either… here is the whole code, with the welcome message near the top. What would be the reason that it doesn’t display?


stop();
var logoScale:Number = 55;
logo_mc._xscale = logoScale;
logo_mc._yscale = logoScale;
var welcomeMessage:String = "Welcome to Science Now!";
welcomeMessage_txt.text = welcomeMessage;
homePage_btn.onRelease = function() {
    gotoAndStop("Home Page");
};
news_btn.onRelease = function() {
    gotoAndStop("News");
};
contactUs_btn.onRelease = function() {
    gotoAndStop("Contact Us");
};

Thanks in advance,

Evan