Displaying Page Numbers
When swiping through items displayed by a FlipView, it can be useful to know which item you are viewing out of how many items. In other words, you might want to display a page number (see Figure 7.8).
FIGURE 7.8 Displaying a page number with a FlipView
You can use the FlipView control’s currentPage property to retrieve the current page (the index of the current item) displayed by the FlipView. You can use the count() method to get the total number of pages (the total number of items) contained in the data source associated with the FlipView.
The page in Listing 7.16 contains a FlipView and a DIV element. The DIV element ...
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