action...?

[rfl]

hi
maybe this is the right place to post this:
i have a drop down menu made very simple: a mc with 2 frames: one for the main button and the other for the items.
Now i have that mc on the main timeline, and also in the main timeline, but on another layer and on frame 2, i have an animation.
My problem is how to write the proper action - from the items button - to play the animation i have in that main timeline at frame 2.
Another Q is if i, instead of the animation in the timeline, had it inside another mc (put in the main timeline); how could i adress it from the items button?

[sfa]

It is better if you put both the buttons and the mc in the same fram with a stop() on the first frame of the movie clip. Then use a tell target to initiate the movie clip on press.

SFA