[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Re: How to close Welcome tab from an intro p

["Ameya Barve" <abarve@xxxxxxxx>]

Ok, I figured it out, and am posting the solution here for the benefit of 
those who will come to this topic using search.

In the sample pages that are created by the wizard (when you select to 
create a RCP app with an intro page), there is one page called root.xhtml 
which is the "Home" page for your Welcome page. This page contains links to 
other pages, for example:

  <a href="http://org.eclipse.ui.intro/showPage?id=concept1"; id="firstLink">
   <img border="0" src="link_obj.gif" alt="Concept1" />
   Learn about Concept One...
  </a>

Changing the href ="http://org.eclipse.ui.intro/switchToLaunchBar"; does the 
trick of closing the Welcome page and going to the Workbench! Here are some 
other actions you could perform:

"http://org.eclipse.ui.intro/close": Closes the Welcome page (same as 
switchToLaunchBar)
"http://org.eclipse.ui.intro/navigate?direction=home": Navigates to the Home 
page
"http://org.eclipse.ui.intro/navigate?direction=backward": Navigates back 
one page
"http://org.eclipse.ui.intro/navigate?direction=forward": Navigates forward 
one page
"http://org.eclipse.ui.intro/openBrowser?url=http://www.eclipse.org": 
Launches the URL in a new browser window
"http://org.eclipse.ui.intro/openURL?url=http://www.eclipse.org": Launches 
the URL within the Welcome page.
"http://org.eclipse.ui.intro/showHelp": Shows the contents of the Help
"http://org.eclipse.ui.intro/showMessage?message=some message": Displays the 
text "some message" in an alert box.

Hope that was helpful!

- Ameya

"Ameya Barve" <abarve@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
news:enhob9$9mc$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I have the base intro page in a RCP created from the standard RCP wizard in 
>Eclipse. I'm trying to simulate the behavior exhibited by Eclipse IDE when 
>you first launch it; if you click on the "Workbench" link, the Welcome page 
>closes automatically and you are taken to the default (Java) Perspective.
>
> I need to add a link (or "action", however you want to call it) on the 
> main intro page that will automatically close the "Welcome" tab. How do I 
> do that?
>
> Thx!
>