Java – is it possible to trigger JButton events through method calls – rather than JButton clicks?

Can events be triggered through method calls? (and click)

import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;

public class Game extends JFrame
{

    JButton leftButton = new JButton("left");
    JButton rightButton = new JButton ("right");

    private JButton Move(String moveClickString)
    {
        JButton chosenButton = new JButton();

        if (moveClickString.equals("left"))
        {
            chosenButton = leftButton;
        }
        if (moveClickString.equals("right"))
        {
            chosenButton = rightButton;
        }
        return chosenButton;
    }

    public void actionTrigger(JButton buttonClick)
    {
        buttonClick.addActionListener(new ActionListener()
        {
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
            {
                Object buttonPressed = e.getSource();

                if (buttonPressed == leftButton);
                {
                    //do left
                }

                if (buttonPressed == rightButton);
                {
                    //do right
                }
            }
        });
    }

    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        Game game = new Game();
        game.setVisible(true);

        game.actionTrigger(game.Move("left")); //some way to execute things?.
    }
}

Is there any way to implement it?

In fact, I came up with this idea when I tried to solve the problem I faced I posted a separate question

(about the previously published question): as far as the server client is concerned, I want to achieve this goal:

>When the client clicks a button in the GUI. > The string 'a' sent to the server. > When the server receives the string 'a' from the client, it calls' methoda '; The method a call will affect the GUI on the server side The client and server GUIs are updated accordingly

thank you.

Solution

JButton has a doclick () method inherited from abstractbutton

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/swing/AbstractButton.html#doClick

This means you can simply write

game.leftButton.doClick();