Making a popup gallery in flash? Any Flash gurus?

[Artfix]

Hey guys. I'm trying to redo my website with flash cs3 and AS 2.0. Are there any experts out there?

I would like to have a pop-up gallery with next and previous buttons but I just don't know enough. I think its going to require some javascript and I'm clueless.

An example is here: http://kekai.weebly.com/

In kekai's gallery sections, you can see the nice popup gallery he uses. The popup window changes size to fit each image. The back page darkens. I hope to do something similar.

Thanks for any tips.

p.s. I did a google search and looked at the tutorials--none are really what I'm looking for.

[Elwell]

Don't do it. AD's hate Flash. (And, you're eliminating any iPad views, something to think about these days.)
The galleries on Kekai's site are done with Lightbox (http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/).

[Artfix]

Hey elwell thanks for the tip and the link! I would have never known about this lightbox man thanks a lot.

Now about the ADs; I assume they dislike flash because they don't like wasting time with animations? I won't be using any animations in my new site. It should be pretty straight forward and load as fast as possible. Flash the only software I know too--I took a look at dreamweaver and I couldnt even tell how to begin.

Will ipads load flash pages that dont include animations?

Edit: You know what--I was going to have some minimal animation. You think thats a bad idea huh?

[Elwell]

If your main focus is illustration, any animations, sounds, non-standard UI, etc, can just be distractions. However, the main problem is that with flash, all the image URLs are hidden within the flash code. ADs like to be able to either save or link to individual images so they can share them for presentations/approval/etc, which is really easy to do in with html, really hard with flash (mind you, some artists prefer flash for this very reason, because it makes images harder to index and steal).
At the moment, the iOS is completely incompatible with flash, and Apple shows no signs of wanting to change that.