Triggering a simple action with an enter_frame event

[ChadThompson]

I'm struggling to move from AS2 to AS3 and trying to mimic an old AS2 trick. When the playhead hits a frame on my mc's timeline with this code:

_root.gotoAndPlay("3");

the main/root/parent timeline would go to frame 3. Clean, short, simple. How can I do this in AS3?

I've tried this code but it didn't work:

this.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, proceedNow);

function proceedNow(event:Event){

     //parent.nextFrame();

     parent.gotoAndPlay("3");

}

I must be going about this the wrong way…

[kglad]

MovieClip(root).gotoAndPlay(3);  // p.s. in as2 and as3 you should not start a frame label with a number.