Generating Mouseclick Programmatically

[Alec Lee]

Apart from java.awt.Robot, are there any other ways to generate mouse click event programatically? Say, something like creating the event object manually and dispatch it to the event queue.

I haven't tried, but it seems that the java.awt.Robot require physical movement of the mouse and the window brought into the foreground and the coordinate of the target component known. I am looking for a way to automate the client without having the client window brought to the foreground. Something like letting the user to work on other things in the foreground without worrying about the automated task.

[Wouter Oet]

On a button you can do button.doClick()

[Alec Lee]

There is a java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent() method. Is it related to generating event programmatically?

[Rob Spoor]

Why don't you try it? Remember that the X and Y locations of mouse clicks are relative to the component on which you click, not the screen.