How can I tell what took someone used to make a flash...

Question

When I'm out surfing around I come across Flash that I'd love
to make a one of. For example I like to do photography and I see a
Flash window that has thumbs across the bottom and a larger picture
on top, and then if you click on one of them you get a much larger
pictures, I looked at the source for the page, but I can't see any
clue as to what tool make that Flash...
If I like what someone has created in Flash, how can I figure
out how they made it?
Thanks
Kelvin

Answer 1

I don't have problems with many things, but being called a
THIEF is one of them.
I did not say that I am helping the community move forward by
decompiling others work.
I did say that the community CAN move forward FASTER when
people stop getting hung up on the idea that their code is
something SACRED.
If you develop something new that has never been done before,
then you have something that you can protect.
If you want to see how other people did it, so that you can
better understand the different methods that can be used to do that
one thing, you are not stealing.
I know many people that take the same stance that I do.
People that look at code to understand it. Most of the things I can
do today because I looked at other peoples code. I didn't copy it,
I took hints from methods and used them to create my own methods.
Sometimes I decompile something, knowing how I would do it,
to see how that person did it. If they have any hints at better
methods that I could use to make my code faster, better. To say
that the majority of people steal is to take the standard American
view on the world. Americans tend to believe that everyone else is
a thief, a crook, whose only intent is to do wrong. (I am BTW, an
American, and I am very proud to be an American) If you step back,
and open your views, and your code, you will find a much different
picture painted. The majority of people aren't looking for
something to steal, but they are forced to take methods that people
would consider "stealing" to learn to do the things that they want
to do.
There are many good reasons to look at code, with or without
the permission of the person who wrote it.
In the end, these are my views, and I am not alone in them.
Those are your views, and you are not alone in them. If you lose
respect for me, then you do. I am here to help who I can help with
the knowledge and experience that I have gained over my time as a
web developer. I only entered these forums recently, and therefore
don't have anywhere near as many posts as you do, but that doesn't
make my position any less accurate. The advice I have given people
is correct and true, and I offer up the things that others don't.
Even if you do not believe in using decompilers, decompilers exist,
and have their uses, therefore should be mentioned. In the end, I
lose respect for you, who I have held in VERY high regards since I
entered this forum, because you are closed minded, and unwilling to
offer the full information to people who are asking.
When I create code, I consider it open-source code. I am not
about to try to fool myself into thinking that people can't see the
code if I don't want them to. But why would I not want them to.
Because I spent hours writing it myself. At least, if others see
it, they won't have to spend as much time to get the same effect. I
know that some of these people will take it verbatim to use in
their projects, and not give me credit. But I don't expect credit.
It is a few lines of code, why should I get credit for writing it,
when I am not the first, nor the last, to write the same code.
Please do not respond to this. We both have better things to
do than sit and debate about the merits of open source code, and
learning by looking.