How would I programmatically click a Swing JButton in a way that would register all the relevant action/mouse events and be visible to the user (i.e. they&#39;d see the button being pressed as if they actually clicked it)?

The button is in the same application I&#39;m running; I&#39;m not trying to control a button in another application.  I suppose I could directly inject events into the queue, but I&#39;d prefer to avoid that approach if possible, and doing it that way wouldn&#39;t show a visible click.

I see the java.awt.Robot class offers methods to move the mouse and click the mouse, but not to make it click a particular button.

Programmatically clicking a GUI button in Java Swing

I&#39;m attempting to perform a mouse click in Java, to click something in an external program. To do this, I&#39;m using `java.awt.robot`, and the following code:

    Robot bot = new Robot();
    int mask = InputEvent.MOUSE_BUTTON1_DOWN;
    bot.mouseMove(x, y);           
    bot.mousePress(mask);     
    bot.mouseRelease(mask);

Here&#39;s the problem. The external program is able to detect that this click is computer-generated and not human-generated, and hence, its rejecting this click.


I have already tried moving the mouse there naturally and that didn&#39;t have any effect. So my guess is, that it must be listening to the keyboard state or such, and telling from that, that the click is computer generated.

What do I have to do to set all keyboard / mouse states to act in the same way as a normal mouse click would?

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Programmatically clicking a GUI button in Java Swing

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