Thursday, 11 March 2010

Killing Flash CS3 / AIR Processes and avoiding the "debugger launch failed" message

To kill an AIR application launched for testing from Flash CS3 open the task manager and kill the process idl.exe.

When working within the Flash CS3 development environment, lightweight or utility windows spawned from an AIR application are not killed when the primary AIR application window is exited. In fact, they are not even killed when Flash CS3 is closed.

Further, as long as these lightweight/utility windows are open you will not be able to to test your application. There simply will be no result from pressing ctrl+enter. Launching the debugger will only offer the message, "debugger launch failed!" If any part of the AIR application is still running you simply will not be able to test your application. Hence, you must go to the task manager and kill idl.exe!

1 comment:

  1. I remember when I was young, I really have the idea to make a chat with Flash AS3, I could make it after 4 years. Now thinks are change, things have improved for me. Those days when I tell everybody to try to get into the project. Well, nobady understood me at those times. Now i've left IT for Medicine, it's a really big change for me, but it's the best.

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