I have a string text and function to display them. I have all my pointers working elsewhere, but it won't work on the string.

STRING* s_but[12];


TEXT* t_cros1 = {string (s_cros1);pos_x=910; pos_y=325;}//works
//TEXT* t_cros1 = {string (s_butz[1]);pos_x=910; pos_y=325;}//DOESN'T work

function call(i,j)
{
if(j==1){str_cpy(s_cros1, s_butz[1]);} //works
if(j==2){str_cpy(s_cros2, s_butz[2]);} //works
if(j==3){str_cpy(s_cros3, s_butz[i]);} //DOESN't work
}

if(key_space){call(2,1);}

basically I can't call an array string inside a TEXT* defenition, and it also won't seem to work with str_cpy either.
any ideas?