# AIR crashes while debugging in Flex

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/air-crashes-while-debugging-in-flex/309266>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 11, 2010, 8:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/air-crashes-while-debugging-in-flex/309266 "2010-05-11T08:21:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ekry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b38774/32.png) [@Ekry](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Ekry)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2010, 8:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/air-crashes-while-debugging-in-flex/309266/1 "2010-05-11T08:21:28Z")

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I’m developing an AIR application on Flex 3.

When a runtime error occurs while debugging, the AIR environment crashes. Windows will then complain ‘adl.exe stopped working’ and I will have to laborously shut down the application. For the same reason, breakpoints are useless - they just cause the application to crash.

So, is there a safe way to debug an application, where instead of crashing like a regular Windows application it would just shut down?

Thank you.