# Textfields giving very unexpected results

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/textfields-giving-very-unexpected-results/330245>\
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**Created:** [December 18, 2012, 8:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/textfields-giving-very-unexpected-results/330245 "2012-12-18T20:49:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tubutas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Tubutas](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Tubutas)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 8:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/textfields-giving-very-unexpected-results/330245/1 "2012-12-18T20:49:57Z")

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Maybe it’s the cs5.5 is really buggy but I just keep running into strange bugs. I have a textfield called tick which has a fancy motion tween animation to it. If I change the value of the textfield on the stage it displays correct. However if I try to change the value of the textfield it’ll have some random effects. For example that if the static value of tick is 20 and then I set it to 500 then it’ll just display 00(Even though trace(tick.text)==“500”). (The width of this textfield is over 600pixels with an 18pt font so I know that’s not the problem). But most the time when I change the value of the textfield flash will recognize that the textfield value was changed(trace(tick.text) has the correct value), but it will display nothing as text.

I don’t understand. Can anyone help?