What is best way to trigger a Hide?

I'm a little confused about how to use Hides. I simply want to have a movie clip Show (with a preselected FE pattern), then -- upon a button press -- Hide (with a preselected FE pattern).

I create a movie clip, drag the FE component onto the MC, and select both the Show & Hide patterns, while deselecting the 'autoplay' paramater on the Hide pattern (so that it now waits for me to tell it to do the selected Hide).

For the button, I am using a GoToFrame command. When the button is pressed, after 'going to frame', I want the above movie clip to perform it's hide.

What is the simplest, fewest keystrokes, approach to triggering the preselected Hide?

I think this is a basic function that I (and probably most users) will use very, very often, but the documentation is not clear to me on how best to perform.

Thanks in advance for all suggestions.

In the function that the button event has triggered just use the following function:
FlashEffInstance.hide()
If you ever need to trigger the show function you should have something like this:
FlashEffInstance.show()
And if you ever need to stop a effect from animating you will need to use:
FlashEffInstance.removeEffect() or if you want to remove everything FlashEff related from your MC use FlashEffInstance.removeAll()

This are the most common FlashEff methods, hope it will help you.

-Ionut.