Problem accessing dynamic text in a dynamically created movielcip

programming flash
1

Hey guys,

So I created a movieclip and linked it to a class called CustomButton. Inside the movie clip is a text field with name btnText. I then created a few buttons with this code:

	var newBtn:CustomButton = new CustomButton();
	
	// set properties of new button
	newBtn.x = INIT_X;
	newBtn.y = INIT_Y + (INIT_H*i);
	newBtn.btnText.text = myText;
	
	this.addChild(newBtn);

So far, so good. Everything works ok and the code sets the text of the new movieclip. Now, I wanted to actually write the CustomButton class and add some properties and eventually do other stuff with it and so I wrote this:

package
{
	import flash.display.MovieClip;

	public class CustomButton extends MovieClip
	{
		public var btnText:String;
		public var url:String;
		public var desc:String;

		public function CustomButton()
		{
			
		}

	}
}

On trying my script again, it gives me this error:

1119: Access of possibly undefined property text through a reference with static type String

the line of code it refers to is:

newBtn.btnText.text = text;

Any clues?