Forcing JLabel to gain focus - how?

Hi people,
how can i force a JLabel to gain focus?
Already tried overwriting isFocusable() -> did not work.
Thanks for any help.
Cheers,
Mark

requestFocus() does work. atleast in my sdk it does 1.4.1_01.
do a requestFocus() and then a System.out.println(jLabel.hasFocus());
the problem is that there is no way to tell that you have focus (no border, etc.) like buttons. probably in your subclass you will need to implement a focus listener to draw a border around the JLabel whenever it has focus and whenever it loses focus...
i don't know though as i've never done something like this before.

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