Making a button go to a specific frame

Question

I'm having trouble with this.  I'm just practicing for the moment and not expert in flash code at all.  I have a button on frame #1.  On that frame, I used the following code I found on the web (which I tried using both AS2 and AS3):
stop();
function buttonClick(event:MouseEvent);void{
gotoAndPlay(2);
I get errors of varying sorts.  What should I use?  AS2 or AS3?  And what code should I assign to the button (or that button's frame?) to get it to go to frame 2 once clicked?

Answer 1

The code you show is an incomplete/incorrect attempt to use AS3.  For AS3 you need to assign an instance name to the button and then assign an event listener to the button using the instance name to target it.  The code goes in the frame of the timeline that coincides with the button's frame (preferably on a separate layer for actionscript).  So if you gave the button an instance name of "btn", the complete/correct code for it would be...
stop(); // this is a timeline command, not a button command
btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, buttonClick);
function buttonClick(evt:MouseEvent):void {
     gotoAndPlay(2);