Question

I have created a flash with five movie clips. I want when I press each of them to go and play specific frames on the main timeline? How can I do that?

Answer 1

btn.addEventListener(
    MouseEvent.CLICK,
    function(e:MouseEvent):void
    {
        MovieClip(root).gotoAndPlay(18);
    }
);

Where btn is the button instance name, and 18 is the frame you want the main timeline to play from.

Or you can write a function to make it easy to assign to multiple buttons:

function clickFrame(button:Sprite, frame:int):void
{
    button.addEventListener(
        MouseEvent.CLICK,
        function(e:MouseEvent):void
        {
            MovieClip(root).gotoAndPlay(frame);
        }
    );
}

clickFrame(btn1, 18);
clickFrame(btn2, 67);
clickFrame(btn3, 114);