# PREV and NEXT buttons ; 3.0

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/prev-and-next-buttons-3-0/285984>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 8, 2009, 2:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/prev-and-next-buttons-3-0/285984 "2009-04-08T14:06:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![xPINKMERCEDESx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/73ab20/32.png) [@xPINKMERCEDESx](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/xPINKMERCEDESx)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 2:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/prev-and-next-buttons-3-0/285984/1 "2009-04-08T14:06:40Z")

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Hello guys. I ran into another wall, and it’s just my inexperience. I’m getting experience by the day and by the project.

Here’s my problem. I’m trying to build a simple photo gallery with Next and Previous buttons without alot of classes and any xml and alot of code. The image locations are in an array. Also, I need the name of the current image to be stored in a variable for other purposes. Here’s the latest version of my code; I’ve been trying alot of things to no avail guys:

var myPlace:Loader = new Loader();  
myPlace.x=50.0  
myPlace.y=50.0  
addChild(myPlace);

var theImages:Array=new Array(“mercedes1”,“mercedes2”,“mercedes3”);

var currentImage:Number;  
var previousImage:Number;  
var currentImageName=event.target;

prevImage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,prevClicked,false,0,true);  
nextImage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,nextClicked,false,0,true);

myPlace.load(new URLRequest(theImages[0]));

function prevClicked(event:MouseEvent):void  
{  
previousImage = previousImage-1;  
if (previousImage\<=0) {  
previousImage = 3;  
}  
myPlace.load(new URLRequest(theImages + previousImage + “.jpg”));  
previousImage --;  
currentImageName=currentImageName;  
}

function nextClicked(event:MouseEvent):void  
{  
if (currentImage\>=3)  
{  
currentImage = 0;  
}  
myPlace.load(new URLRequest(theImages + currentImage + “.jpg”));  
currentImage++;  
currentImageName=currentImageName;  
}

Thanks for any direction guys.

x lisa x