Hello... I have a MovieClip animating on the main stage and I need to tell
another MC inside of it to gotoAndPlay(2); ... however this code doesnt do the
trick:

firstMC.secondMC.gotoAndPlay(2);

How can I control that second MC?

That code should work, but you can't use the symbol names from the library. You
have to give the MC's instance names, then refer to those. So if your symbol
names are "firstMC" and "secondMC", you could make the instance names "first"
and "second" and the code would be "first.second.gotoAndPlay(2);"

I know... They both have instance names... This is so simple, but it's not
working... I have no idea what's going on... is there something i dont know?

This is the layout:

Maintimeline.movie1.movie2.gotoAndPlay(2);

I another words... _root.movie1.movie2.gotoAndPlay(2); should work too...

Any ideas?

Actually, if the second movieClip is inside firstMC then all you need is

secondMC.gotoAndPlay(2);

it is relative to the firstMC

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No, that's wrong. If you are targetting the 2nd mc from the main timeline,
the 1st MUST be included in the scope. Your example would only work if it
was in a handler attached to mc1.

2 things i would try.
1. trace the clip to make sure it is viable:
trace ("targetting: "+mc1.mc2);

If you get undefined, either your scope is wrong or the clip does not exist.
If it all appears fine, it might be worth putting a frame label on frame 2
of mc2, and trying that:

mc1.mc2.gotoAndPlay("myFrameLabel");


HTH
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