JTextArea text deselection event

I am doing some custom drawing of Swing components so that I can draw them over a heavyweight component and still support transparency correctly. Now, when using some swing components, not all of the expected action occur. For example, in a JTextArea, after selecting text, clicking inside the text area does not deselect the text (my RenderManager is not being asked to mark it dirty) or with JInternalFrames, hovering over the edges of a resizable frame does not update the mouse cursor like it would do in a normal JFrame.
Are there a set of events I need to listen to that I'm unaware of? I am at a loss as to why it's not asking to mark itself dirty through the RenderManager
Thank you in advance for any help given.
Stephen

Note: When I say "RenderManager", I meant "RepaintManager"
Also, if I add a mouse listener to my JTextArea and have it repaint on a click, the selection gets cleared as expected. So, it seems that the selection is getting cleared but the component isn't marking itself dirty with the RepaintManager.
And thanks for moving my topic; assumed Java programming was as good a location as any, but GUI is probably a better fit.

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