how to programmatically fake a touch event to a UIButton?

Question

I\'m writing some unit tests and, because of the nature of this particular app, it\'s important that I get as high up the UI chain as possible. So, what I\'d l

Answer 1

In this case, UIButton is derived from UIControl. This works for object derived from UIControl.

I wanted to reuse "UIBarButtonItem" action on specific use case. Here, UIBarButtonItem doesn't offer method sendActionsForControlEvents:

But luckily, UIBarButtonItem has properties for target & action.

 if(notHappy){        
         SEL exit = self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem.action;
         id  world = self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem.target;
         [world performSelector:exit];
 }

Here, rightBarButtonItem is of type UIBarButtonItem.