Re: Reload Preference Pane in memory

FROM : Nick Zitzmann
DATE : Thu Jul 20 23:51:30 2006

On Jul 20, 2006, at 3:38 PM, matt jaffa wrote:

> In our upgrade installer package we put down a new System Preferences
> pane and it is working. But when they have System Preferences open
> before the upgrade the old .prefPane stays in memory. Is there some
> cocoa api to tell the System Preferences to reload in memory are
> Preference Pane without switching which preference pane is active, so
> that when they click on our prefPane it will show the updated version.


I don't think so. Instead, you should probably make the installer 
close System Preferences if it's open. That's pretty easy to do with 
NSAppleScript.

Nick Zitzmann
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