Loading Textual Data from HttpService Would Not Show Up on TextArea

Question

Hi,
  I have something fairly strange here that I have a little problem getting it to work. I am loading some data from XML and attempt to format it a little more on Actiosncript and print it out on the TextArea. For some reason, it would not show up, even though when I used Alert.show it does spit out the entire xml data set. Based on this, I know my data has been loaded correctly, but I am not sure why it is not showing up on my page.
Here is the code,
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml">
    <mx:states>   
        <mx:State name="view">
          <mx:RemoveChild target="{intro}"/>
            <mx:AddChild relativeTo="{applicationcontrolbar1}" position="before">
                <mx:TextArea editable="false" id="viewText" width="450" height="279" text="{messageInfo}"/>
            </mx:AddChild>
        </mx:State>
    </mx:states>
    <mx:Script>
        <![CDATA[
            import mx.events.ItemClickEvent;
            import mx.controls.Alert;
            import mx.rpc.events.ResultEvent;
            import mx.rpc.events.FaultEvent;
            [Bindable]private var message:XMLList;
            [Bindable]private var messageInfo:XMLList;
            private var savedIndex:int = 99999;
   private function clickHandler(event:ItemClickEvent):void {
                if (event.index == savedIndex) {
                    //don't do a thing
                else {
                    savedIndex = event.index;
                      navigateToURL(new URLRequest("../"+ event.item.data));
            private function toggleButtonBar_itemClick(evt:ItemClickEvent):void {
                currentState = evt.item.data;
                if(evt.item.data == "view") view();
           private function view():void{
              currentState="view";
              userView.send();          
           private function httpService_fault(evt:FaultEvent):void {
                var title:String = evt.type + " (" + evt.fault.faultCode + ")";
                var text:String = evt.fault.faultString;
                Alert.show("There is an error! Type " + title + " " + text);
           private function httpService_result(evt:ResultEvent):void {
                messageInfo = XML(evt.result).messages.message;
                Alert.show(messageInfo);
                message = XML(evt.result);
                var message_name:String = "";
                var message_phone:String = "";
    for each (var message:XML in messageInfo.messages.message) { 
          viewText.text += "Name " + messageInfo.name + "\n";
          viewText.text += "Phone " + messageInfo.phone + "\n";               
        ]]>
    </mx:Script>
<mx:HTTPService id="userView" url="messages.xml" resultFormat="e4x"
  fault="httpService_fault(event);" result="httpService_result(event)" />
<mx:PhoneNumberValidator id="pnVal" source="{your_phone}" property="text"/>
<mx:EmailValidator id="emailVal" source="{your_email}" property="text"/>
    <mx:Array id="dp">
        <mx:Object data="view" label="View"/>
    </mx:Array>
    <mx:Panel id="panel" title="My Home" height="70%">            
    <mx:TextArea id="intro" width="77%" height="100" borderStyle="none" paddingLeft="10" color="black">
            <mx:htmlText><![CDATA[Welcome to my page.]]></mx:htmlText>
        </mx:TextArea>
         <mx:ApplicationControlBar id="applicationcontrolbar1">
        <mx:ToggleButtonBar id="toggleButtonBar" color="#FFFFCC"
                dataProvider="{dp}"
                itemClick="toggleButtonBar_itemClick(event);" />
    </mx:ApplicationControlBar>           
    </mx:Panel> 
</mx:Application>
Note, there are other items in the array, but those are not relevant to the question of the topic here, and therefore I am not posting the code for those sections.
When I click on the View button, it does give me the correct state, but I get a blank box of textArea with no data when I know there is output from Alert.show in the view(). What have I missed?
Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

Thanks for the pointer. As a matter of fact, I found out that it is because of my xml nodes messing up, and that the text was displayed as white for someb reason. With a white background, of course I would not see a thing.
Thanks again.