How to skip an action

Question

I have a swf file "home" that has a series of animations that are button controled.
I want part of the animation to be skipped when I click one specific button, for instance
Most of the time I want frame label:"1 out" to play all the way through to the last frame (20) and on frame (20) there is an action sending it back to frame 1and stopping, but I need to have a button that when hit plays frame label 1: "1 out" and continues to frame (19) and does not utilize the action on frame (20) sending it back to frame (1), or in other words playing through "1 out" and then playing "2 out" which occurs on frame 21 without returning to frame (1).

Answer 1

I didn't really follow your explanation of frame skipping, and you haven't indicated what version of Actionscript you're using, so you'll have to try to work with this... create a variable:
var skipFrame:Boolean = false;
For the button code, assuming the button is clicked to skip frames, have it set that value to true ( skipFrame = true; )
Then, in frame 19 (assuming that's where the decision to skip needs to be made) test the status of the skipFrame variable...
if(skipFrame){
     skipFrame = false; // if you plan to reset it once it's used
     gotoAndPlay(?);   // got wherever you intend when you skip
} else {
     play();