cant able to exchanges elements in array - iphone

hi i am new to iPhone.what i did is creating an array with images as shown below
images = [NSMutableArray alloc] initWithObjets:#"image1.jpg",#"image2.jpg",#"image3.jpg",#"image4.jpg",#"image5.jpg",#"image6.jpg",nil]
and i create a button when ever button click images are exchanged for that i am writing code as fallows in button clicked event.
[_images exchangeObjectAtIndex:2 withObjectAtIndex:4];
but images are not exchanged and i did n't get any warnings and images.i am writing array in viewDidLoad.what is the wrong.how can i exchange elements in the array. thank u in advance.

Are you getting an array of images to then put into a UIImage so it goes through all the images one by one?
If so then when you change this array it will not change the order of the UIImages. You will need to change the array as you currently are then assign the array to the UIImage again like you would have done before. This would then show you the new and hopefully correct sequence of images.
I may be a bit wrong and you are using each location in the array to create a UIImage then put all those UIImages into a UIImageView. But what i am saying still applies, you would have to assign the new array to the UIImageView.

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