action events 1

[mactonio]

Hi guys,
I have a GUI with some buttons and combo boxes, they are all tied to an action listener and thats working fine, what i want to know is, is there a function that I can use to trigger an action, for eg. a function call that makes the program thinks a button was pressed, even though it wasnt

thanks
Chris

 

[Diancecht]

You want to programmatically click the button or to make the program act like if the button was pressed?

Cheers,
Dian

 

[mactonio]

whichever one would be fine I guess, I just want to trigger the action listener.

thanks for the fast reply

 

[stefanwagner]

Have a look at java.awt.Robot.

Can't you do by the function, what is done by your AL when clicking that button?

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[sedj]

Normally when a button event is captured, you call a method - why can you not just call that method based on your parameters for wanting to call that method ?

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[timw]

... otherwise (and if using the Robot is too much trouble), you could always build the ActionEvent yourself and post it to the EventQueue. Take a look at java.awt.EventQueue, java.awt.AWTEvent and java.awt.event.ActionEvent.

But unless you've got some requirement for this that you're not telling us, sedj's suggestion would seem the best course.

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[Diancecht]

To make the button clicked, a call to its click() method would be enough ...

Cheers,
Dian

 

[mactonio]

thanks for all your ideas......Dian that is what i was looking for.