Can we fire key press event programmatically????

hi there,
is it possible in java to fire a key press event (of the associated component) programmatically??? like we can fire action event of a button by saying
button.doClick();
thanks in advance.
anshu

You can do so by using awt.Robot.keyPress(), just don't forget to do awt.Robot.keyRelease() afterwards!
Note that it doesn't work for Applets unless you sign them, for security reasons (you don't want to go into a site and have the applet click ctrl+alt+del for you, right?)
Cheers!
Moti

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