How to make the dock reload all dock tile plugins?

Question

I am making an application which uses a dock tile plug-in. However, when I recompile my dock tile plugin, the dock still uses the old one, even when I killall the dock. The only way to fix this is by rebooting my Mac, but I don't want to reboot it for every little code change I make. Also, dock tile plugins are poorly documented. Can anyone help me?

Answer 1

I found out using an NSAlert and Accessability Inspector that a process called SystemUIServer is responsible for dock tile plugins. Just do:

$ killall SystemUIServer

This will restart SystemUIServer and reload the dock tile plugins.