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- redant
Is it cheating? Is it wrong?
- doesnotexist0
is that when people reverse engineer flash sites to steal the niceness of it?
- fyoucher10
If you use it to learn, no.
If you deliberately steal and use for your own commercial or even personal use, in some cases, then I'd say yes.
- skelly_b0
To learn from others, it's at best a grey area. To copy and paste the code into your own project is straight theft.
The only time i see no problem at all is when it's the client's SWFs you are breaking into because they lost FLA files.
- Yea well I learn, helps me understand I have it there in front of me, otherwise I freak out and get stressed if that makes sense :)redant
- designbot0
I have never done this but I would think it would be more confusing than anything. Like looking at someone else's code (especially if it's bad code). Even opening other peeps PSD's can be a nightmare.
May be helpful if you are looking for something really specific and can't figure it out though.
- redant0
well i bought the decompiler, for learning purposes.
- flashbender0
I don't think it is all that bad if you are really learning from it - seeing how a certain feature is made.
It is more or less the same as an industrial engineer going to the store and buying a bunch of products - let's say a drills and taking them apart with the goal of figuring out how to improve the drill mechanism. Taking the best features from each drill and basing his work on the work others have already done.
That being said, I agree that straight up copy/paste is highly suspect.