jonbee wrote:
Hi thanks for your reply. I've been doing what you said, which is actually what I was doing before, but the text box stays resolutely blank. However I do notice that a cursor in the text box moves in unison with what I type in the text editor box, so something is happening but no text is showing.
Not only is the cursor moving, your text is actually being created on the new layer. As others have pointed out, you are not seeing the text because the layer lies outside the boundaries of the image canvas. If you move the layer onto the image canvas, the text will be visible (this behavior is similar for any layers, not just text).