newbie animation question

The documentation seems lacking in terms of controlling animation, or maybe I just haven't found the right page. At the moment I'm trying to do something very simple. I have four on screen buttons, each of them should play a different animation on a single sprite.

Right now I have the animations broken up into four different sequences in the animation editor. When I go to the event editor (and this is where I'm finding no documentation) I first SET the animation to LoopName.AnimationName - then set animation frame to 0 then start animation from beginning. This works fine for the first button and the first loop. I can't for the life of me figure out how to get the second loop to work - I tried making a second event on the second button that's identical except that it's LoopName2.AnimationName...

Any ideas? Any documentation?

Also - the first loop seems to play when I open the file - not sure how to get my sprite to just sit there and not animate... thanks for any help

In the properties for animation at the top left when you are in edit mode you can set it to Loop.

You don't need to do all that, When you edit your animation you already have a bunch of properties in the property panel (click on the name of an animation you'll see)

You can set a default speed and some looping properties.

So basically you just need to

+Button: on clicked
  -> Set animation to "what you want" (start from begining)

It basically sort of works - the problem is I can't set the animation to what I want. I'm trying to click on one sprite to play an animation on another sprite - and when I try to set the name of the animation it says 'this is not a variable name in the scope' - so - I can't trigger animation on one sprite from another? Is there a workaround?

Thanks for the help!

I'm trying to turn this site into html5:

poopfriends.com

Ok - it took me three hours to figure out I need "quotes" around the animation name - meh... thanks for the help