Programmatically clicking a GUI button in Java Swing

Question

How would I programmatically click a Swing JButton in a way that would register all the relevant action/mouse events and be visible to the user (i.e. they\'d see the button

Answer 1

You could always simulate it by firing an action event with it as the source.

http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/awt/event/ActionEvent.html

To fire it, create the action event above, and whatever listener you want just call

ActionEvent e = new ActionEvent(myButton,1234,"CommandToPeform");
myListener.actionPerformed(e);