programmaticly trigger an event

[maxim]

i have a mouse event that runs some code that i need the computer to trigger automatically at times without the mouse actually being used as the event trigger.how would i go about this any ideas ?

[Fubarable]

In my mind it depends. What else then would trigger the code? another event? a time interval?

[paul pasciak]

I'm going to assume that the computer, and the
mouse operator act independent of each other,
That they don't care what the other is doing,
but at least they must 'respect' each other.

So, write an application or applet where only the
mouse operator performs the operation you want.

Then write an application or applet where the
computer alone performs this operation.

Now you know this much of the code can work.

To create the final code, throw both of them
together. (I state it this way because I have no
idea what your goal is, and this statement is
concise enough.)

THIS IS THE IMPORTANT PART:

To avoid contention between the mouse operator
and the computer, set up two flags:

boolean mouseHasFunction = false;
boolean computerHasFunction = false;

Modify your mouseEvent with a test of
the "computerHasFunction" flag:

if(!computerHasFunction){
  mouseHasFunction = true;

  whatever you or the
  computer want to do..

  mouseHasFunction = false;
}

And for the computer, modify its process with a
test of the "mouseHasFunction" flag:

if(!mouseHasFunction){
  computerHasFunction = true;

  whatever you or the
  computer want to do..

  computerHasFunction = false;
}

[maxim]

yeah its a timer thing. dont worry guys ill just call it from a thread like you would an animation