# Why the textfield's text doesn't show on the screen?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-the-textfields-text-doesnt-show-on-the-screen/94095>\
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**Created:** [November 8, 2003, 1:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-the-textfields-text-doesnt-show-on-the-screen/94095 "2003-11-08T13:51:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![SBUH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4bbf92/32.png) [@SBUH](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/SBUH)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2003, 1:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-the-textfields-text-doesnt-show-on-the-screen/94095/1 "2003-11-08T13:51:24Z")

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Hello, I have one textfield which is presented like  
\_root.screen1.screen2.textfield1

screen2 is the movieclip within screen1. They are movieclips and textfield1 is the textfield

I tested like  
\_root.screen1.screen2.textfield1.text=“Hi, can u see me?”;  
trace(\_root.screen1.screen2.textfield1.text);

Then I can see the result of trace which have the text I wrote, but I cannot see anything on the screen.

Could any one give some hint for why it is like this and how to modify then ?

Thanks a lot in advance!