Aggregator Slide Numbering (Captivate CPT 5.5)

Aggregator seems to work fine. Two things I noticed, one of which is a question:
The CPT movie fills the (webpage) screen at first but when all the individual SWF of the aggregated project finish downloading the CPT movie "shrinks" to the development size (in this case 800x600). I wonder why it is large at first (almost like "full screen" but more like full webpage) and then reverts to the development size.
The slide number variable on each slide of each module (movie or SWF) only counts the slides in the specific module. When the next module starts, the slide number is zero. It makes sense that it would do this but I wonder if it is possible to do two different things instead:
Index from one (1) instead of zero (0), and
Count all slides, across modules, in successive order so if module 1 is 10 slides and module 2 is 5 slides, the last slide played would be slide number 15.
Thanks in advance.
Michael
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Hello Michael,
Cannot give you an answer on your first question.
About your second question: are you showing the slide numbers to the user in a Text Caption? In that case the quickest way would be to calculate the number by an advanced action. It is possible to pass data from one file to another (like the total number of slides in the previous file), but then you'll need a widget from cpguru - Michael Lund:
Save and Load Data Widget
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