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Re: What's the friendliest way to restart the Dock?
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Re: What's the friendliest way to restart the Dock?


  • Subject: Re: What's the friendliest way to restart the Dock?
  • From: "Sean McBride" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:56:24 -0400
  • Organization: Rogue Research Inc.

On 10/30/09 1:47 PM, David Riggle said:

>My app uses an NSDockTilePlugin. When I update my app via Sparkle, I
>want the new dock plug-in to be loaded. Unfortunately, the
>SystemUIServer has already loaded the old plug-in and ignores the new
>plug-in. Ditto for the Dock. There's no API that I've found to force a
>dock plug-in to be reloaded.
>
>To flush out the old plug-in I've been doing "killall SystemUIServer
>Dock". That works, but the Dock's current state is lost (minimized
>windows, etc.). Is there a friendlier way to restart the Dock so it
>won't lose its current state?

Probably by sending it a quit apple event.  Searching the web/archives
should yield lots of sample code on how to do that (in C, shell script,
applescript, etc.)

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Rogue Research                        www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer              Montréal, Québec, Canada


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