"Lazy"/Delayed initialization of objects?

Question

Good day!
I have a Text control just for easy debugging during development, it was setup as follows:
            <!--some previous forms here not shown-->
            </mx:Form>
            <mx:Form id="DebugResults" label="Debug Output" hideEffect="{fadeOut}" showEffect="{fadeIn}" >
                <mx:Text x="128" y="500" enabled="true" id="DebugResultsTXT" width="570"
                    text="debugging output here" />
            </mx:Form>
        </mx:TabNavigator>
And an event handler that outputs the debugging info:
            public function debug_handleReply(event:ResultEvent):void
                // writes to the Text Control for easy debugging
                if(DebugResultsTXT){
                    DebugResultsTXT.text = event.result.toString();
My problem is that when the webpage loads, DebugResultsTXT is always NULL. (I set breakpoint and watched DebugResultsTXT)  I found out that I need to manually navigate to the tab "DebugResults" and the DebugResultsTXT text control will be instantiated.
My Questions:
(1) is this because flash performs "lazy" or delayed initialization/instantiation of objects?
(2) any way to "force" the instantiation of DebugResultsTXT without having to manually navigate to that tab (can't expect that from the end-user right?)
Many thanks!

Answer 1

Thanks msakrejda.  Right on!