How to activate a JButton with right-click?

Question

If I create a JButton and add an ActionListener, I can activate the button with a mouse left-click but not with a mouse right-click.
I've looked at other posts related to this topic. Some people have said that the default is that either a left- or right-click will activate a JButton but I can't get this to happen.
If I add a MouseListener to the button, I get mouse events for both left and right clicks (in mousePressed() for instance) but only the left-click goes on to activate the JButton.
I'm using Java 1.4 with Windows 2000.
Thanks in advance for any help.
-Rick

Answer 1

I use Windows 98, that's what I get too. I'm pretty sure that's normal behavior. If you want right clicks to be processed as well, use this code:
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class BothClick extends JFrame implements MouseListener
    JButton clickMe;
    public BothClick()
        super("Test");
        setSize(300, 300);
        clickMe = new JButton("Click Me");
        getContentPane().setLayout(new FlowLayout());
        getContentPane().add(clickMe);
        clickMe.addMouseListener(this);
        setVisible(true);
    public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e)
        clickMe.doClick();
    public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent e) {}
    public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent e) {}
    public void mouseExited(MouseEvent e) {}
    public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) {}
    public static void main(String[] args)
        new BothClick();
}