Flash vs. Fireworks for Animation Map

Quick "flash" question. I need to supply a flash animation
map of the US, where the user clicks on individual states...
afterwhich the state color changes to a 2nd color and the data is
ported to a website/dbase. Based on that info, can this be done in
Fireworks or does it need to be Flash? Any help is greatly
appreciated.
Jen

MarketInk wrote:
> Quick "flash" question. I need to supply a flash
animation map of the US, where
> the user clicks on individual states... afterwhich the
state color changes to a
> 2nd color and the data is ported to a website/dbase.
Based on that info, can
> this be done in Fireworks or does it need to be Flash?
Any help is greatly
> appreciated.
Those are easiest to do in Flash, where all you need to do is
create
buttons of each section of the map.
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Hello Tor Browser help staff,
I've now tried everything and I cannot get ANY Flash content to play in this Tor-Firefox ESR web browser, even though I've tried installing the Flash player plugin that this browser asks for when I'm on a YouTube page (and even though this computer already had a current Flash Player plugin installed previously).
Let me make it clear that privacy is not important to me right now during this quest to make the Flash Player plugin work with this Tor browser... I can reset any settings for maximum privacy later when I go back to that purpose for using Tor... right now, I'm just trying to make the Tor browser play Flash content.
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Now, this, explained below, could be part of the problem that I'd like to ask for your help or SOMEONE's help with there in your department...
If I go to the Tor Browser folder on my hard drive at C:>Tor Browser>FirefoxPortable>Data>plugins there are NO Flash plugin files that show up in that folder even after I install a new Flash Player plugin THROUGH this browser... I believe that is why it will not play Flash content.
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And as I explained at the top of this email, I have already installed and re-installed the Flash Player plugin on this computer multiple times, including doing it directly through this Tor-Firefox ESR browser itself.
So can ANYONE there tell me how to get the correct Flash Player plugin files in to the Tor-Firefox browser plugins folder at C:>Tor Browser>FirefoxPortable>Data>plugins, and where do I get those files? Everything I've tried, which is pretty extensive, has not worked, and it seems that someone there should know about this.
Thanks for your help.

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