How do I programmatically send ActionEvent to JButton?

Question

How do I programmatically send an ActionEvent (eg button pressed/ACTION_PERFORMED) to a JButton?

I know of:

button.doClick(         


        

Answer 1

You can get a button's ActionListeners, and then call the actionPerformed method directly.

ActionEvent event;
long when;

when  = System.currentTimeMillis();
event = new ActionEvent(button, ActionEvent.ACTION_PERFORMED, "Anything", when, 0);

for (ActionListener listener : button.getActionListeners()) {
    listener.actionPerformed(event);
}