Getting text into a Livecode field

[RM]

So, I was mucking around trying to reduplicate/solve John Patten's
problem with Arrow Keys in Livecode 8 (I reduplicated them: 
http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=27225),
and thought I'd do what I usually do: enter some text in a field and do 
a quick "import snapshot"
to get a label on the stack.

So, I set up a new textField, and could find NO place in the Properties 
palette where I could enter
the text; when I tried to enter it via 'browse' in the textField itself 
that also failed.

Livecode 64 bit Linux.

Richmond.