Multiple levels/Interactive environment in a platform game

[Mastemah]

Hey all.... So i have a project due in for class soon and I know the code to this is very simple but i can't seem to figure it out -.-

What i want is when 'player_mc' touches 'hitbox_mc' the movieclip  'bat_mc' will play and when it reaches its last frame it will be erased off the stage. (bat_mc will be stuck on first frame until 'hitbox_mc' is touched... )

So pretty much when the character walks through an invisible box it activates a bat on the tree to fly away...

Also

I want something simular to the idea above, however when the character touches 'hitbox_mc' it will switch to 'room2' which is the next frame, here is the code so far

if(player_mc.hitTestPoint(hitbox_mc)){
          gotoAndStop("room2");
}

However the code above is giving me these errors:

Scene 1, Layer 'Actions', Frame 1, Line 284
1067: Implicit coercion of a value of type flash.display:MovieClip to an unrelated type Number.
Scene 1, Layer 'Actions', Frame 1, Line 284
1136: Incorrect number of arguments.  Expected 2.

Help would be appreciated!

[Ned Murphy]

You need to look up the hitTestPoint method to see why specifying a movieclip for the argument is leading to the two errors you see.

[Mastemah]

Would you be able to explain it to me?  Here is a picture of what i'm trying to do..

When 'player_mc' touches' hitbox_mc', the movieclip 'bat_mc' plays once and erases itself.

And for the level change its the same concept... Player touches box and gets sent to second frame on timeline which is t he next level...

Been trying to figure this out all weekend and just turned to pros for help now..

[Mastemah]

So are you able to explain it to me?

[Mastemah]

Can someone please show me how to write the code or correct my above code?