I'm using a slider to switch between images that I want to copy from one set of canvases into a single canvas. I'm not using a ritch text field.
Presuming a slider named "slider1", you could give a button a script like
on click do slider1.value:slider1.value + 1 end
This situation is very similar to one of the examples in The Decker Guided Tour and one of the examples in the introductory primer in the Lil Reference Manual.