Flash button with dynamic text

I'm trying to create a flash button so that it can toggle
between "Sound On" and "Sound Off" but I feel like I'm doing
something wrong and it errors out on me.
I have a button on stage as, and in my up/over/down/hit in
different colors I have a dynamic text field identified as
sound_txt.
Here's the script I have so far for my frame:
stop();
mutebtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,muteDo);
function muteDo(event:MouseEvent) {
if (mutebtn.sound_txt.text == "Sound Off") {
mutebtn.sound_txt.text = "Sound On";
} else {
mutebtn.sound_txt.text = "Sound Off";
and this is the error message I am getting:
TypeError: Error #1010: A term is undefined and has no
properties.
at buttontst_fla::MainTimeline/muteDo()
TypeError: Error #1010: A term is undefined and has no
properties.
at buttontst_fla::MainTimeline/muteDo()
Can someboy please advise as to how I can get this to
work?

I tried bringing the textfield out of the button but while it
worked when I pressed the button portion that is not under the
text, it was the part of the text that got in the way from doing
anything. I wonder where I can find an existing example that works
the way I want it too so I can at least follow that example. I
think I tried making the dynamic text a movie clip but was still
getting similar errors.
Edit: I at least got it to work by converting the button into
a movie clip although I had also wanted it so that I could also
change the foreground color of the dynamic text upon rollover,
etc.

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Maybe I am asking this question wrong. Instead of making you try and figure out what's going on in my file what I really need to know is how you would take this code I am attaching and make it happen on another frame besides frame 1 and it doesn't appear on frame 1. I think this may help me understand a little better.
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Hello,
i wonder if anyone can help me........i know there are a lot
of posts already on how to print out dynamic text but all of them
seem to be using scrolling text fields.
However my problem isn't even as complex as this but i still
can't work it out.
At the moment i have a form of text boxes which the user
inputs text.............from here there is a print
button.........in order to compile all of the answers together i
have created a movie clip.........with the layout of the printed
page on it, and placed this on the main timeline. Inside this movie
clip to be printed i have dynamic text fields...which link to the
text fields which the users inputted data in, therefore both sets
of text fields contain the same data, when you change one the other
should change.
I have set up a very simple printJob command to print out the
movie clip named print_mc and it prints the page even the outline
of the text boxes but it doesn't print out the content which
appears on the screen. my code is attached below.......please if
anyone could help i would be very grateful :)
print_btn.onRelease = function() {
_global.aOneVar =oneAPone.text;
_global.aTwoVar =oneAPtwo.text;
print_mc.gotoAndStop("2");
var myPrintJob:PrintJob = new PrintJob();
var result:Boolean = myPrintJob.start();
if (result) {
myPrintJob.addPage("print_mc", null, {printAsBitmap:false},
2);
myPrintJob.send();
delete myPrintJob;
} else {
thanks

erictomlinson,
> So, if I turn off the xml/css and use htmlText to create
> content for the text field, the text uses the embedded
> font and is anti-aliased.
I'm with ya. Presumably, then there's a font symbol in your
Library,
right? And its Linkage identifier is "arial_font"?
> If I keep the xml/css but comment out embedFonts, then
> the content works but is not anti-aliased.
That's because your CSS calls for Franklin Gothic Book,
which hasn't
been imported into your Library as a font symbol (at least,
you haven't said
it has).
> I need both of these to work at the same time.
Give Franklin Gothic Book a Linkage identifier, and use that
name in
your CSS.
David Stiller
Adobe Community Expert
Dev blog,
http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."

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