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Dynamic percent bars…
2006 @ 11:34 am
I’ve been asked many time about the graphic bars I, and many other knitters, use to track project progress. They look like this:
This weekend, my bars disappeared! Since the bars require a shockwave file to operate, they go down when the file is unavailable. The file was housed on a server that was not my own that I no longer have access too. Even worse, Anna Knits, the blogging genius who originally dreamt up and shared the code and .swf file for this nifty tool is nowhere to be found! What is a girl to do? and what is so great about these percent bars as opposed to others offered free? Well, these percent bars are dynamic (flash). All you have to do is paste in a bit of code and you are free to manipulate color and exact percentage at any time! I personally prefer this to subbing different jpg files each time I want to update my progress.
The good news is that people with more talent for research than I found the Annaknits web page in an archive and posted it! That Andrea is one smart cookie. Her own blog archive holds a full description of the code as well as a link to the archival original internet page. Dudes, I didn’t even know the Internt had an archive. Knock me over with a feather.
Anyway, try these bad boys out…
Comments
Whoa – I’m away for a few days and you’ve got like 10 FO’s dude is this pre- baby tidying?
hey, glad i could help 
and for some reason, the flash file disappeared so i just uploaded it again – the web server’s having some difficulties but should be up within the hour..
here’s another good post on those progress bars: http://crocheted.blogspot.com/.....rs_08.html
[...] I have progress bars! eeeee! I am the epitomy of a nerd. Thanks to Kaitlyn for posting this! I’ve been terrified to try setting these up before but ever since I DOMINATED (yeah, that’s right) this blog I am fearless! [...]
I’d forgotten that I wanted to use those bars. Hmmm, I should put them up. BTW, my cousin in Chicago had her baby on Wednesday! A boy, named Jake Brayden. He was 6lbs 4ozs. 20″ long. So cute! Maybe one day I can meet Baby Sassy…
Argh! The flash file link on Andrea’s blog is no longer active. Help?