I remember when Adobe bought out Macromedia, and then when they announced that Flash 9 would actually be Flash CS3 how excited I was imagining that all the crap parts of Flash would be replaced by their Illustrator and Photoshop equivalents. And then Flash CS3 came out and I was completely underwhelmed. I haven't been following the announcements for Flash 10 at all because upgrading is inevitable and if there are flaws, I'll learn to live with them. That said, here's a list of the things I can't wait to see the back of, feel free to add your own.
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the solid white background of the textfields when you edit/select text
- the default color pallete and swatches
- font families and weights being handled differently than Photoshop
- when you add a motion tween to a drawing object it automatically creates two symbols. Why two, and why doesn't it give you the option to name them as they're created?
- the help window's random ordering of classes/topics, and the useless search field
- the pen tool. this is the big one i expected in CS3. let freehand rest in peace
- the AI/PSD importer's tiny, tiny thumbnails. this might be useful if every layer of every psd and ai file was labelled every time, but this is the real world
- the AI/PSD importer's bitmap transparency artifacts. this is redundant because the reason we need the asset to be transparent is 99% of time because we want to animate on a layer above different asset, and as soon as it is moved artifacts tend to shatter the illusion.
- that weird one when sometimes if you change the position of a shape numerically you get the old "Invalid size and position" alert, and then it freaks out and draws a stroke around the shape for no reason
- how when you cancel an export it takes at least the same amount of time to cancel as it does to complete and the progreses bar still progresses to the end
- shape tween
- the actionscript editor
- new library folder/symbols can't have the same names even though they are different things
- and my personal favourite, adding new frames at the end of an animation crashing the whole program
Apologies for the rant.