How do I programmatically trigger a mx:Button click event?

Question

Consider the following mx:Button:

<mx:Button click="doSomething()" id="myButton"/>

Is there some way to programmatically emulate the user clicking the button?

One obvious way to do it would simply be to call doSomething() which would give the same end result as clicking the button. But I'm specifically looking for ways to emulate the click -- that is something along the lines of myButton.click() (if that should have existed).

Answer 1

The Button class dispatches events just like any other piece of ActionScript code: it uses the dispatchEvent method of the IEventDispatcher interface. You could invoke this yourself using this code:

myButton.dispatchEvent(new MouseEvent(MouseEvent.CLICK));