Go To Frame Label action

Please help!! I have a drop-down menu that I created inside a
movie clip. Each drop down has a button behind it. What I am trying
to do is make it so when each button behind each menu item is
clicked it goes to a particular frame (label) on the Main time
line. I can set the "get URL" action to each button and it works,
but it won't let me apply the "go to frame label" action. I am
stumpped because when I go through the process and select the right
scene then pick frame label the label I created is recognized in
the drop down. But when I go to test it it does nothing...
In short... I want to add a "go to frame label" action to a
button inside my "drop-down" movie clip that goes to a frame label
on the Main timeline.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

yes, the actionscript you should use is just as you listed.
give each frame a unique label so there's only one "dom". there
should not be one "dom" in scene 1 and one "dom" in scene 2.
if there was a situation where you wanted to use "dom" in
scene 1 and "dom" in scene 2, use "scene1_dom" and "scene2_dom" or
something else easy to remember and suggestive.
i dont understand your question unless you're clicking that
plus sign in the actions panel. you can find the goto function
under global functions/timeline control. but you should use the
timeline or movieclip method: _root.gotoAndPlay() and
_root.gotoAndStop().

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I'm asking for some hand-holding on this one. Hopefully I can explain this well enough.
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When a roll out is executed, the playhead is to go the Frame Label textIn.
Easy enough.
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This happens despite my having a stop(); action at the textStay frame.
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In your click function you could remove the ROLL_OUT listener, and then reassign it when you get to your textStay frame.
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Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference. at SelfPromoSite_fla::MainTimeline/frame1()
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The 1009 error indicates that one of the objects being targeted by your code is out of scope. This could mean that the object....
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I am trying to link btns to movies (or frames) which lie
outside the movie in which said btn exists.
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Thanks
I can work with that,
I think my script was simply off as I wasn't saying anything
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Hello,
I'm not too sure if this is difficult to most people or not,
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Navigating to Frame Label In a MC

Hi All,
I need some help and I will try to explain what I am trying
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1. Is there a reason why I would use the second segment of
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frame
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around in your
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> no. if the frame label is "contact" you would use:
>
>
>
> Btn1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, buttonClick1);
> function buttonClick1(event:MouseEvent):void{
> gotoAndStop("contact");
> };
>
> // or
>
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>
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>

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