playing a symbol through a different symbol?

hey, I have a symbol which contains a button which plays the next frame in the symbol. I'm wondering if I can also make it play the next frame in ANOTHER symbol.

thanks!

also, is there a proper way to give the command to play the next frame in the symbol? I just write

on(release){
gotoAndPlay("[symbol name]", [number of next frame]);
}

but I noticed that it works the same even if I don't write the correct symbol name in... I'm just substituting symbol name where scene usually is.

You can control movie clip symbols with actionscript. So if you had a movie clip symbol with a name of "myClip" and you wanted it go to frame 5, your button would say:

Code:

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on(release){
  myClip.gotoAndPlay(5);
}

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