A really noob question

[Gaoban]

Just started learning flash a few days ago so please bear with this really noob question.
When you have two or three movie clips or instances of movieclips on each frame on your timeline like say frames 1,2,and 3, How do you make it so that they play one after another smoothly without the user having to do anything?

Took me a while to figure out that the playhead had to stop on the frame with movieclip for the animation to play now I have stop action on each frame and have no idea how to progress from one to the other after the animation or the movie plays once.

[oldnewbie]

On the ending frame of each movie clip, simply add the following on a frame action...

_parent.nextFrame();

The playhead should move to next frame of the main timeline and stop, since nextFrame() is not a play action.

[Gaoban]

Thank you, that really helps.
One thing I noticed. If the consecutive movieclips are instances of same movieclip the last movie clip doesnot play. Is there any way to fix that? Not really big deal cuz works fine when i use different movieclips or not use the same instances one after another. Just wondering.

[oldnewbie]

I would have to test it, but it should still work!