GotoAndPlay confuse -.-

Question

Hello everyone,
I would like to ask about the function gotoAndPlay(). There
might be something I don't know but this is just confusing =.=
Firstly, I'm making a swf with 1 Scene named "Quiz". In this
Scene, there are 2 Movie Clips.
Clip 1 is placed on frame 1 and I add a stop() to frame 1 of
Clip 1's Timeline.
On the first frame of the Scene, I add some lines of codes:
{ stop();
if presskey...blahblah...
MovieClip1.gotoAndPlay(2);
Clip 1 play when I press a button, it stops at frame 30 as I
have a stop() there. Now I want the playhead to go back to the
Scene so I can get Clip 2 started. I add " gotoAndPlay(2, "Quiz")"
, as Clip 2 is placed on Frame 2 of the Scene.
But Flash just says that Scene Quiz was not found. I'm not
new to Flash, but I'm not learning AS much so there's something I
still don't understand. Why doesn't my code work?
Please help me. Thank you!

Answer 1

I created a quick sample to make sure it works. Were you
using "this.parent" or "(this.parent as MovieClip)". "this.parent"
alone does not work. The reason being that the compiler apparently
doesn't know what kind of object you are talking to, so it
complains that the method you use (gotoAndPlay()) is possibly
undefined.
There is an article you can read up on to get a better idea
of why this is so than I can relate. Just Google "AS3 _parent" and
it'll be the first item listed in the serach results.
If it's still not working, then your problem may be
elsewhere.