simulate isn't triggering event functions about interact.js

[taye]

I wrote the simulate method to allow starting an action sequence without a mouse down. "simulate" is probably not the best name to have chosen. If you want to fire InteractEvents on an interactable you can use Interactable#fire:

interact(divElement).fire(eventToSimulate);

[dduugg]

Thanks, taye. Could you elaborate on the purpose of simulate? It seems like "starting an action sequence" would trigger the actionChecker function, however, replacing:

interact(divElement).draggable({
    onstart: function(event) {
        console.log(event);
        eventToSimulate = event;
    }
});

in the repro with:

interact(divElement).actionChecker(function(event) {
    console.log(event);
    eventToSimulate = event;
    return "drag";
});

also fails to log anything to the console when eventToSimulate is assigned and and used in a call to interact.simulate.

[taye]

The idea behind the method was to allow you to enter an action sequence programatically without the initial touchstart or pointerdown event. The call to simulate would fire a start event and then any further pointer movement would fire move events on the target element.

"startAction" would be a more suitable name and it should be an Interactable method. I actually thought that I had removed the documentation for the function to avoid confusion.