How to trigger an IBAction method programmatically vs. via a button, etc?

Question

I can easily "do something", by creating an IBAction method, and connecting it to a button in IB. For example...

-(IBAction)popThat:(id)sndr{ [windy setFrame:eRect display:YES];}

However, I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to do this via a simple, callable method... i.e.

-(void) popThatMethod { [windy setFrame:eRect display:YES]; }

-(void) awakeFromNib  { [self popThatMethod];               }

I would expect that this method would DO the same thing as clicking the button... as they are identical... but NO. Nothing happens. What am I missing here?

Answer 1

I don't state that this is categorically the best answer, or the right way to do it, but one approach that works is to put the following in -applicationDidFinishLaunching::

[self performSelector: @selector(popWindow:) withObject:self afterDelay: 0.0];

This causes it to be called on the next pass of the runloop, by which time whatever was not in place before is now in place.

Answer 2

Depending on what you're trying to do, you might want

[buttonObj sendActionsForControlEvents: UIControlEventTouchUpInside];

Which triggers the button as if it had been touched, and forces whatever actions are connected to it.

NOTE: that's the answer from when I asked this SO question.