Adobe Flex/Flash builder Wishlist

Adobe Flex (now Adobe Flash builder) is a really nice solu­tion (frame­work + edi­tor) but there are some fea­tures i’m missing:

• Mul­ti­thread­ing: when load­ing some CPU inten­sive data the UI freezes; there are some threading-like-managing solu­tions avail­able but no one works really well (the new ver­sion of AIR will fix this allow­ing to call native code).
• Eclipse edi­tor smaller mem­ory foot­print (some times it grows to over 400MB);
• Faster Design Mode: too slow and why there is,  some times, the need to refresh the view and it isn’t done automatically?
• In the out­line win­dow (thw one which shows the struc­ture tree) the pos­si­bil­ity to do drag and drop;
• Code obfus­ca­tion: it’ a mess that is so easy to read and copy all the soft­ware code with­out any pain; you have to buy an exter­nal encrypter or try an hand made solution.
• Image Drag And Drop (with request to link it or embed);
• Image auto-updated when the file is changed (ie replac­ing with a new ver­sion), because the only two ways to force this is to clean and rebuild the entire project or to change a let­ter in the source file­name of the image and restore it (ie: bear.png -> be.pn -> be.png)

The the use of Eclipse as devel­op­ing plat­form is quite use­less: it’s heavy, slow, and with a big mem­ory foot­print: why use a Mam­moth like that if a Flex user will use only Flex fea­tures and wont access all the Eclipse fea­tures avail­able (I pre­fer to use a sep­a­rate Eclipse to avoid prob­lems, which is always updated while Flex ver­sion won’t update to lat­est Eclipse patches). An AIR appli­ca­tion wont’ be bet­ter now that AIR has reached a nice work­ing version?;

After some hours of work­ing with Adobe Flex/Flash Builder  the garbage col­lec­tor isn’t able to free all the resources, the last time i checked it reached after I asked for a gar­bace col­lec­tor oper­a­tion it ended with 560MB (this means no way to decrease more resources with­out clos­ing the application).