Firing bullets on a certain frame. - actionscript-3

Question

I could not find topic like this and that is why I am posting this question. I have a side scrolling game with the character set up in positions with frame labels- animation states to stand, jump, run, kneel and fire. She is also made to fire bullets with separate class file. The problem is that right now she is firing bullets in all of the animation states. The question is how do I make this character fire the bullets only on the frame label fire. The frame label fire consists of 2 frames and I want the launching of the bullet to happen on the second frame. Which means that the keyboard space will be pressed for a second or two before it goes to this frame and then it will fire (like in real life).
I tried to connect the animation state to the bullets somehow and tried to put the condition in these lines of code somehow:
if(e.keyCode == Keyboard.SPACE){
if (Animation state "Fire (2)")
fireBullet();
}
But it did not work, it doesn't know what I am talking about. The class file for the bullet is separate and I don't think is relevant to the problem.
The rest of the timeline code is like this:
var bulletList:Array = new Array();
if(e.keyCode == Keyboard.SPACE){
fireBullet();
}
}
function fireBullet():void
{
var playerDirection:String;
if(player.scaleX < 0){
playerDirection = "left";
} else if(player.scaleX > 0){
playerDirection = "right";
}
var bullet:Bullet = new Bullet(player.x - scrollX, player.y - scrollY,
playerDirection xSpeed);
back.addChild(bullet);
Thank you. I hope that my question is clear.

Answer 1

There is addFrameScript, AS3's mystery function that can be useful in this situation. And that would look something like this:
playerAnimation.addFrameScript( insertFrameNumber, fireBullet );
addFrameScript runs the method passed as a parameter when the MovieClip reaches a certain frame.
I believe how you would want to use this in your current code:
player.addFrameScript( 5, fireBullet );
Then in your KEY_UP handler:
function keyUpHandler(e:KeyboardEvent):void{
if(e.keyCode == Keyboard.SPACE){
spacePressed = false;
player.gotoAndPlay("fire");
}
if(e.keyCode == Keyboard.LEFT){
leftPressed = false;
}
else if(e.keyCode == Keyboard.RIGHT){
rightPressed = false;
}
else if(e.keyCode == Keyboard.UP){
upPressed = false;
}
else if(e.keyCode == Keyboard.DOWN){
downPressed = false;
}
}