How do I simulate an event????

Question

I want to simulate an event to invoke the following without have to actually click the JMenuItem.
To create the event and simulate a click of the JMenuItem.
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae)
   Object action = ae.getActionCommand();
   if (action == "Clicked")
// ...Help ....

Answer 1

Make your code listening to the menu item like this:public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae)
   Object action = ae.getActionCommand();
   if (action == "Clicked")
      menuItemClicked();
}where menuItemClicked() is a method declared elsewhere in your class. Then to simulate the menu item being clicked, just call the menuItemClicked() method.
(Actually that probably isn't good code for the ActionListener, since you should compare strings using the equals() method and not using ==.)