Play last frame in frame label in reverse?

Yesterday Kglad gave me the following :
nextTX.onRelease = function (){
var nextFrameLabelNum:Number = (1+Math.round(thTX._currentframe/27))%10;
thTX.gotoAndPlay("next "+nextFrameLabelNum);
prevTX.onRelease = function() {
    var nextFrameLabelNum:Number = (10+Math.round(thTX._currentframe/27))%10;
    if(nextFrameLabelNum==1){
        nextFrameLabelNum = 10;
    thTX.gotoAndPlay("next "+nextFrameLabelNum);
which works great IF I am moving one image at a time. What I have done now is tween 3 slides to move into a visible mask by pressing next, but when I press previous of course the above doesn't work. It just jumps to the previous three with no tween. I would like to maintain the tween but in reverse
I would like the previous just to undo, in reverse, what the next button just did with the tween? Is there anyway to make this happen with as 2.0?
been trying to use PrevFrame() but nothing yet works ; P
Thanks
EDIT: thought I was onto something I always want prevoius to play the last 27 frames (from 27 back in reverse on the tween) so I tried to write something to do that but it failed me ; (

you should tween with actionscript. your timeline set is becoming cumbersome.

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I'm currently working on the framework for a product viewer.
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a button instance called 'autoplay_btn' which plays through the movie clip from whatever the current frame is, and stops on frame 1.
a left and right button which serve to move the movie clip frame, to give the appearance that the product is rotating.
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1. This is the part that gets it to play through once before returning to the first frame. I think perhaps the problem I am experiencing is because of the 'viewer_mc.addFrameScript(lastFrame-1, toStart)' part i.e. although I'm holding the left button, its returning to this script and therefor getting bounced back immediately to the first frame. However, there is no flicker on the screen which you might expect if this were the case
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I'd imagine it is probably my logic for this part that is really letting me down - I can do a similar function in actionscript 2, but am trying to learn actionscript 3 just to move with the times as it were, and struggling a bit. Still this is only a few days in!
function rotateLeft(e:Event):void{
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Any help you can give me would be gratefully received. For an example of the effect I am trying to achieve with the autoplay button etc. I recommend:
http://www.fender.com/basses/precision-bass/american-standard-precision-bass

Thanks for getting back to me.
Here's the code without my comments / explanations:
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
import flash.events.Event;
var lastFrame:Number = viewer_mc.totalFrames;
var thisFrame:Number = viewer_mc.currentFrame;
var backFrame:Number = viewer_mc.currentFrame-1;
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The definition of the rotateLeft function is where the problem lies I think - I've taken out my poor attempts at doing the logic from the previous post. If I were to write it out long-hand the statement I want to write is: 'If you get to frame 1 and function rotateLeft is called go to the end of the movie clip'.
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shift select the clips to establish a total length of the video clips and them add a title that ends just inside the last clip.
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          setImageFile(gui.getFrontImage());
               gui.setComponents(true);
               reversed = false;
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          setImageFile(gui.getBackImage());
               gui.setComponents(false);
               reversed = true;
     repaint();
public void setImageFile(java.lang.String imageFile) {
     fieldImageFile = imageFile;
/* Get and download the image for the new postcard background */
backgroundImage = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage( fieldImageFile );
     MediaTracker mt = new MediaTracker( this );
     mt.addImage( backgroundImage, 0 );
     try{
          mt.waitForID( 0 );
     catch( InterruptedException ie )
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     mt.removeImage(backgroundImage, 0);
public void paint(Graphics g)
{     if( backgroundImage != null )
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so basically i press an srea area on the screen and every time i do it alternates between these 2 animated gifs gui.getBackImage() just returns te string of the animated gif file. I've checked to make sure that a new instance of the media tracker is being created each time and it is so i'm not really sure where the problem is!!

Urgent: Gif animation shows only the last frame when reloaded

I use ImageIcon to show gif animations on screen. I want to use only non-looping gif animation files.
Always when I show a gif animation for the first time it runs correctly through all the frames.
However when reloading later the same gif animation only the last frame appears. I want to see all the frames of the animation, not only the last frame.
So for the first showing of the animation this works well:
     icon = new ImageIcon("first_animation.gif");
       label = new JLabel();
       label.setIcon(icon);Then I show another animation and also it works well:
       icon2 = new ImageIcon("second_animation.gif");
       label.setIcon(icon2);Now I would like to show the first animation again but only the last frame of that first animation appears on screen:
label.setIcon(icon);And even this alternative way to refresh does not work:
       icon = new ImageIcon("first_animation.gif");
       label.setIcon(icon);
How can I reload the first animation again so that it shows all the frames not only the last frame???
I have tried for ex. commands updateUI(); and setImageObserver but they don't seem to help.
I am only a novice so...
Please I would really appreciate your detailed advice what lines I should rewrite in my code and how?
Thank you very much!!

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