# Unbelievably stupid question
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/unbelievably-stupid-question/9423
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [December 11, 2002, 3:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/unbelievably-stupid-question/9423 "2002-12-11T15:19:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@bfrench](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/bfrench)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2002, 3:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/unbelievably-stupid-question/9423/1 "2002-12-11T15:19:32Z")
Okay, I’m really embarrassed to ask this question, but I’ve been away from Flash for a while and my brain seems to be in a dead zone today.
I have a movie clip, call it myMovieClip. Inside this movieclip are two frames. All I’m trying to do is on the main timeline dictate which frame of the movie clip displays.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2002, 3:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/unbelievably-stupid-question/9423/2 "2002-12-11T15:25:43Z")
im not sure what you exactly want:beam:😛
this?:sigh:
```php
myMovieClip.gotoAndPlay(frame)
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2002, 3:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/unbelievably-stupid-question/9423/3 "2002-12-11T15:42:39Z")
Well, like I said, my brain is in a dead zone today. You were absolutely right and that worked perfectly. (I could have sworn that I tried that before posting my question.)
I do have a second question, though. I am building a component that contains the movieclip just mentioned. The first function in my component is an initializing function with the following code:
myComponentClass.prototype.initial = function() {
this.myMovieClip.gotoAndStop(“secondFrame”);
}
Any ideas why this is not working?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2002, 6:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/unbelievably-stupid-question/9423/4 "2002-12-11T18:10:32Z")
secondFrame is it a frame label or what is this… :q:
if you want to gotoAndStop next frame you can use this
```php
gotoAndStop(_currentframe+1);
```
i can’t understand what you mean exactly :\*(