Nested textbox not displaying text

I made a movie clip to show instructions for a study people will participate in. I wanted to make it look nice so it has a lot of movement and fades and stuff. This required the use of more nested movie clips than i probably need. However, now when I want to attach a string var to a text box in the movie clip, it doesn’t show when compiled.

The attachment script is:


instructions_mc_m.large_instuctions_mc.large_instructions_tb_container.large_instructions_tb.text=matchedInstr

There are no errors, so I’m assuming the path is correct (and i dbl checked it anyway).

Does anyone have any ideas why it would not show? Could it have something to do with what frame in the movie clip the text is actually displayed? If you need more info, let me know, I did not know what was important to include and didnt want to add clutter.