flash actionscript: Hi, I'm resuming work on my game. And the question I have is, how do I figure
out at a given point, where a MC is on its animation cycle?

something like
if (frame.player == 1) {
//do something
}

The reason I ask is because sometimes the player gets stuck on frame 1, and I
want to push him to frame 2.

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One second question:
If I put script on frame 2 of the player's animation saying gotoandplay(3);
the animation looks funny, as if it skipped frame 2, or went over it really
fast.. Is this in fact what happens when you use gotoandplay?

Thank you!

if its as2
then you just check the _currentframe property. Its readonly... to move the
playhead you use play, gotoAndPlay, gotoAndStop etc.

see here:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/00001903.html#wp373076

re your second question, I don't know the answer for sure. gotoAndStop or
gotoAndPlay does not appear to prevent remaining code from executing in that
frame... but it I believe it advances the playhead immediately and executes the
old frame's remaining code (ie. what executes after the gotoAndPlay
instruction) [i]in the context[/i] of the target frame. This is based on some
simple tests with trace(_currentframe) on each frame and some timer related
checks as well. Others may know more about this... and perhaps what I observed
is not correct under all circumstances.

Thanks!
How exactly do I check the currentframe property of a MC?

Do I say something like
if (_currentframe.player == 2) {

close, call the target clip first:

if(player._currentframe==2) {
//the action