New TextField() not displaying?

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Hello,

I have an actionscript class, and when I make a new one, the constructor is suposed to create a new textfield. but nothing shows up. here is my .as file:

package scripts
{
    import flash.display.Sprite;
    import flash.text.TextField;
    import flash.text.TextFieldType;
 
 public class QuizSentence extends Sprite
 {
  
  public function QuizSentence():void{
   trace("constructor");
   
   var myText:TextField = new TextField();
   myText.text = "Republic of Code";
   addChild(myText);

   
  }
 }
}

When i put the same code into the actual timeline, it works fine. What could be wrong? No compile errors.

Thanks!