Disable left-click on buttons

Hi guys!
I need to disable the left-click event on a button, but not the right-click one! I don't want to catch the mouseClickedEvent and then to find if it was the left or the right button to be pressed because left-clicking on a button makes it "appear pressed", so the user wonders "What's going wrong with this button??!!"
Any help?

Updates:
Looking at the source code of javax.swing.plaf.ButtonUI.BasicButtonUI I saw that there's a call to model.isPressed(). Following this clue I found the method javax.swing.AbstractButton.getModel() and ...
yes, this can be a way to intercept the event (I did not try), but it's not the answer to my question: I got a java.awt.Button :(
Why did I choose AWT???

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