This is very light on the coding, but was very useful for me. I used this in transitional frames.

For example… I have 3 frames on my timeline and I want the first one to be a button to take you to the second frame and the second frame would play a mc that takes you to the third frame… I coded the button to play the next frame. On frame 2 I had a mc… at the end of the timeline within the mc I put…

stop();

MovieClip(parent).nextFrame();

It will take you to the third frame on the main timeline. I used this to play transitions and it worked well. It is very easy to do. And if it was within another movie clip the coding would be:

MovieClip(parent.parent).nextFrame();