From 9a0b6c24a4d8e8b1b0e000302f130bb134421453 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: photonstorm <rdavey@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 10:28:49 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Text can now accept `undefined` or `null` as the `text`
 argument in the constructor and will cast it as an empty string.

---
 README.md               |  1 +
 src/gameobjects/Text.js | 11 ++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index cfe5691f2..31cff8622 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -262,6 +262,7 @@ If you are an exceptional JavaScript developer and would like to join the Phaser
 * TypeScript definitions fixes and updates (thanks @clark-stevenson @vrecluse)
 * JSDoc typo fixes (thanks )
 * VideoStream.active = false is used if the browser supports it, otherwise it falls back to VideoStream.stop.
+* Text can now accept `undefined` or `null` as the `text` argument in the constructor and will cast it as an empty string.
 
 ### Bug Fixes
 
diff --git a/src/gameobjects/Text.js b/src/gameobjects/Text.js
index a55db2c57..6c56a98d6 100644
--- a/src/gameobjects/Text.js
+++ b/src/gameobjects/Text.js
@@ -40,7 +40,16 @@ Phaser.Text = function (game, x, y, text, style) {
 
     x = x || 0;
     y = y || 0;
-    text = text.toString() || '';
+
+    if (text === undefined || text === null)
+    {
+        text = '';
+    }
+    else
+    {
+        text = text.toString();
+    }
+
     style = style || {};
 
     /**