[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Re: Scheduled Update from RCP

[Phill_Perryman@xxxxxxxxx]

Well I have spent most of the morning
in Google and debug but have come up with the following which I am posting
in case anyone else is interested.

This is for 3.3 but may work earlier
but I have not tried.

First you have to include the org.eclipse.update.scheduler
plugin in the product which does the work.

Next I set the default state of the
preferences for the updater. I did this by setting them in the preference
page and then scanning through the configuration folder until I found them
in a file. You may not need all of them but as they were there I put them
in.

Preferences node = new
DefaultScope().getNode("org.eclipse.update.scheduler");
//$NON-NLS-1$
node.putBoolean("enabled",
true);
//$NON-NLS-1$
node.putBoolean("download",
true);
//$NON-NLS-1$
node.put("hour",
"1\\:00 AM");
//$NON-NLS-1$ //$NON-NLS-2$
node.put("day",
"Every day");
 //$NON-NLS-1$//$NON-NLS-2$

Next I wanted to stop the user changing
the preferences so I opened the update jar file in winzip and had a look
at the plugin.xml to find the name of the preference page from the preferences
extension definition then removed it with

final
PreferenceManager pm = window.getWorkbench().getPreferenceManager();
pm.remove("org.eclipse.update.internal.ui.preferences.MainPreferencePage");

Now when I run my RCP application it
starts a background update check and no preference page for the user to
change anything.