Why doesn't the text show?

programming flash
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Probably an obvious one but why doesn’t the text show in my textField?


	var thumbInfo:TextField = new TextField;
	thumbInfo.type = TextFieldType.DYNAMIC;
	thumbInfo.embedFonts = true;
	thumbInfo.mouseEnabled = false;
	thumbInfo.alpha = 0;
	thumbInfo.width = 100;
	thumbInfo.height = 20;
	thumbInfo.selectable = false;
	thumbInfo.textColor = 0xFFFFFF;
	thumbInfo.background = true;
	thumbInfo.backgroundColor = 0x000000;
	thumbInfo.text = "text";
	thumbContainer.addChild(thumbInfo);