Snail: that was my point about this not working if the gradient followed the length of the active. But another solution could be to just scale an active the same color as the bg of the bar over top of the "bar" that is really just concealing/revealing it. In this case, the bar is just a static image. There are certainly a lot of ways to be clever when dealing with bar counter. Thanks for the example. Although it seems way over the top for my own projects, I never thought to use a subtractive blended object. Always interesting to see how others solve problems.
