Dial animation with buttons

I have a simple game with a dial and a needle. I have made two "right" and "wrong" buttons. Simply, I need to be able to make the needle move forward when the "right" buttons is clicked, and backward when the "wrong" button is clicked, regardless of the needle position on the dial. What would be the simplist way to accomplish this? I am a beginner with Actionscript, and I've tried all I know to do. Thanks for any reply.

Showing what you've tried to do will help. You essentially just need to change the rotation value of the needle depending on the button selected...
objectName.rotation += someValue;
Where some value is either a positive or a negative number representing degrees. In that example line, AS3 (rotation) is used. In AS2 it would be _rotation.

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var alphaTween2:Tween = new Tween(purple_ob, "_alpha", Strong.easeIn, 0, 100, 15, false);
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var alphaTween2:Tween = new Tween(green_ob, "_alpha", Strong.easeIn, 0, 100, 15, false);
var currentPage:String = green_ob;
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orange_but.onPress = function() {
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orange_ob._x = 0;
orange_ob._y = 0;
var alphaTween:Tween = new Tween(currentPage, "_alpha", Strong.easeIn, 100, 0, 15, false);
var alphaTween2:Tween = new Tween(orange_ob, "_alpha", Strong.easeIn, 0, 100, 15, false);
var currentPage:String = orange_ob;
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blue_but.onPress = function() {
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blue_ob._x = 0;
blue_ob._y = 0;
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var alphaTween2:Tween = new Tween(blue_ob, "_alpha", Strong.easeIn, 0, 100, 15, false);
var currentPage:String = blue_ob;
blue_ob.swapDepths(thedepth += 1);

Perfect!
I removed the 'swapdepth' and it works perfectly now.
thank you so much for your help, Ned!!!
Below is the final code
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import mx.transitions.easing;
var ob_array = new Array(purple_ob, green_ob, orange_ob, blue_ob);
var ob_count = 0;
var currentPage = purple_ob;
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orange_ob._alpha = 0;
blue_ob._alpha = 0;
purple_ob._x = 0;
purple_ob._y = 0;
green_ob._x = 0;
green_ob._y = 0;
orange_ob._x = 0;
orange_ob._y = 0;
blue_ob._x = 0;
blue_ob._y = 0;
function fadeOBs(){
      clearInterval(intervalID);
      intervalID = setInterval(fadeOBs, 3000);
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      if(ob_count >= ob_array.length){
            ob_count = 0;
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      var alphaTween2:Tween = new Tween(ob_array[ob_count], "_alpha", Strong.easeIn, 0, 100, 15, false);
      currentPage = ob_array[ob_count];
//Uncomment the line below if you want to increase the MC's depth
      //ob_array[ob_count].swapDepths(thedepth += 1);
purple_but.onPress = function() {
      ob_count = -1; // one less than this
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green_but.onPress = function() {
      ob_count = 0; // one less than this
      fadeOBs();
orange_but.onPress = function() {
      ob_count = 1; // one less than this
      fadeOBs();
blue_but.onPress = function() {
      ob_count = 2; // one less than this
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