TextInput text color pain

programming flash
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Hey guys I’m having trouble setting the color of the text of a TextInput component.

I know there is a TextField within it, I’m trying several methods, but none works:

----------- method 1 (textField.textColor)

_input_name = new TextInput();
_input_name.textField.background = true;
_input_name.textField.backgroundColor = 0x2a2a2a;
_input_name.textField.textColor = 0xFFFFFF;
_input_name.text = “some text”;

addChild(_input_name);

----------- method 2 (textField.defaultTextFormat)

var tfm:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
tfm.color = 0xFFFFFF;

_input_name = new TextInput();
_input_name.textField.background = true;
_input_name.textField.backgroundColor = 0x2a2a2a;
_input_name.textField.borderColor = 0xCCCCCC;
_input_name.text = “some text”;
_input_name.textField.defaultTextFormat = tfm;

addChild(_input_name);

background color changes nicely but text won’t react :confused: