Launch an action in Eclipse RCP at startup

Question

I have an RCP plug-in and I have configured the help system to run within this plug-in. I can access it from the Help menu.

Now I want to launch the "Dynamic Help" action by default at startup. How do I do this?

Answer 1

You could use the org.eclipse.ui.startup extension and implement the org.eclipse.ui.IStartup interface that allows you to run code once the workbench has initialized.

Answer 2

Solved this by using the WorkbenchAdvisor implementation:

@Override
public void postStartup() {
    IWorkbenchHelpSystem help = PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getHelpSystem();
    help.displayDynamicHelp();
}

The Startup extension proved futile.