[platform-core-dev] Navigator Filtering

[Rod Iversen <riversen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have received no response from this on the newsgroups, so I'll try
here.

I have a plugin which adds a filter extension to the navigator as
follows:

    <extension point="org.eclipse.ui.resourceFilters">
        <filter pattern=".foo*" selected="true" />
    </extension>

If the Eclipse workbench hasn't been opened before (i.e. no workspace
metadata), the extension is automatically filtered. However, if there
already is metadata, the extension isn't automatically filtered. It
seems that once Eclipse has been opened for the first time, the default
filter selection is stored in the workspace.xml file in the metadata
plugin directory org.eclipse.ui.

Is there some way to force Eclipse to automatically select  my filter
extension after the Eclipse workbench  has already been opened once? If
so, will it work for WSAD also?

Rod