getButtonCount() returns 0, cannot detect mouse clicks

[joeb3219]

On the Dell Inspiron 15 3000, the touchpad doesn't have any physical left/right buttons. Instead, it is one giant touchpad that is pressure sensitive. I'm assuming it detects right/left clicks based off of hand position on the trackpad.

In my LWJGL application, I detect mouse button clicks with Mouse.isButtonDown(0). This works fine on computers with a mouse with physical buttons, but doesn't work on touchpads that lack physical buttons. Mouse.getButtonCount() returns 0.

Has anybody had any success in detecting if a mouse button is pressed, should the user be using a trackpad that doesn't have physical buttons?