Objective-C, Binding IBAction to NSTextField - objective-c

Question

I have an NSTextField that repopulates itself based on the outcome of a result; I would like to automatically perform an IBAction (which is normally controlled by clicking a NSButton in the app). How could I perform the click, or IBAction automatically based upon the result?
appDelegate.h
#interface main : NSView <NSApplicationDelegate>
{
NSView *main;
IBOutlet NSTextField *textValue;
IBOutlet NSWindow* window1;
IBOutlet NSWindow* window2;
}
- (void)textUpdated;
- (IBAction)switchWindow:(id)sender;
Which I would like to trigger or bind to the (IBAction)switchWindow:
appDelegate.m
- (void)textUpdated
{
[textValue setStringValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#, Switching Window", stringValue]];
[self switchWindow:sender];
}
- (IBAction)switchWindow:(id)sender {
[self performSelector:[NSApp keyWindow]==window?#selector(openWindow):#selector(closeWindow) withObject:nil afterDelay:0.0];
}
- (void)openWindow {
[window1 showWindow:window2 open:YES];
}
- (void)closeWindow {
[window2 showWindow:window1 open:NO];
}

Answer 1

Switching to real code improves the question, but it's still hard to understand exactly what you're asking. As Josh Caswell pointed out, an action is just a method and you're free to call it yourself. You seem to be doing that already in -textUpdated, but your assertion that "it still doesn't do anything" doesn't give us much to go on. So:
Does -textUpdated get called? If no, there's your problem.
Does -switchWindow: get called? Stick a breakpoint in that method and see if you stop there. (Hint: If you answered 'yes' to the first question, you'll stop there.)
What do you expect to happen that isn't happening?
Are the values of the various variables (ivars and local variables) what you expect?
Do -openWindow and -closeWindow get called appropriately?
What does [NSApp keyWindow] return? Does it ever return a pointer equivalent to window? (And by the way, it wouldn't hurt to tell us what window means here.)
Did you perhaps intend to write something like (note the '1' after 'window'):
[self performSelector:[NSApp keyWindow] == window1 ? #selector(openWindow) : #selector(closeWindow) withObject:nil afterDelay:0.0];
Your code might be easier to understand if you just do one thing at a time. Yes, it's more lines, but it's a lot easier to debug:
NSWindow *keyWindow = [NSApp keyWindow];
if (keyWindow == window1) {
[self openWindow];
}
else if (keyWindow == window2) {
[self closeWindow];
}