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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I've been working on creating a page counter within a Framework, and when you get to the first page of the framework, the total number of pages isn't calculating correctly.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I have an empty text icon with an ID of 'slideCounter' that is in the Entry Frame of the framework. The framework ID is dbInst. I am placing the following code in a script icon on each page (not in the Entry Frame):</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Lucida Console">slideCounter.setText('Slide ' + (dbInst.currentPage + 1) + ' of ' + dbInst.pages.length);</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">On the first page of the framework, this prints 'Slide 1 of 1'. Moving to the second page, it correctly prints 'Slide 2 of 20' and returning to the previous page, it prints 'Slide 1 of 20' -- so it isn't giving the correct value for the length of the pages array on the first pass, but correctly does so after that. And if that wasn't strange enough, if I use Ctrl+F5 to open Page 1, it displays the correct values, but if I navigate to this framework from the page prior to it (or use Ctrl+F5 with the Framework icon selected), it displays the incorrect value.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Is there a better way to do this?</FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#808080" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> Paul Swanson</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#808080" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> Harland Financial Solutions</FONT>
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