AS3 need advice scripting

[Mr D]

Hello there. I would like some advice. Here is my problem.
I have a "scene" and on it is movie clip "Y" (inst. name Y).
Clip Y has frame 1,2 and 3.
I need 3 different buttons that are on "scene" to gotoAndStop on frame 1,2,3 in clip Y (inst name for buttons B1,B2,B3).

I did try to look around for the right code but since I do not really understand it I only ended with many failures that did nothing. Please help.

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addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, sceneClick);

function sceneClick(e:MouseEvent):void{
     switch(true){
           case e.target.name=="B1": Y.gotoAndStop(1); break;
           case e.target.name=="B2": Y.gotoAndStop(2); break;
           case e.target.name=="B3": y.gotoAndStop(3); break;
     }
}

[Mr D]

It worked and from the way you wrote It, I can even understand how it works. Thank you very much gorepete.

[GoRepeat]

It worked and from the way you wrote It, I can even understand how it works. Thank you very much gorepete.

[NoBounce16]

Although this is a great method to do it, I worry that it's not very future proof. The best way of doing this would be to create an 'animation' class, which inherits MovieClip and has information on how many frames are inside it. I'd also create a button class that asks for a Sprite property and a 'gotoframe' property. That way, in the future you can create lots of different animations and buttons that can interact with each other without having to hardcode switch statements for all of your buttons. Let me know if this makes sense.