JSpinner getting focus?

I'm trying something that I thought should be simple, but it doesn't seem to work.
I would like to be notified when a spinner gets focus, so I added a FocusListener to the JSpinner involved. The FocusGained and FocusLost methods in the FocusListener were not invoked when I tabbed through the spinner, nor when I clicked on its text field. The spinner is focusable and enabled.
Then I thought that maybe I had to monitor the editor instead, so I tried adding the FocusListener to the JSpinner's editor. No luck there either.
I think I must be missing something elementary. If what I tried should have worked, I'll post the code here so that someone can point out my error.
Thanks
Jon

Hi,
you don't want to be informed when the JSpinner gets the focus (by default the JSpinner is not focusable), but when the text field gets the focus. So you have to add your FocusListener like this:
JSpinner js = new JSpinner();
((JSpinner.DefaultEditor)js.getEditor()).getTextField().addFocusListener(new MyFocusListener());You should not make the JSpinner focusable 'cause then the user has to type the tab-key twice to enter the JSpinner's text field.
Andre

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