How do you know which component in your UI has focus?

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From: Jeroen Zwartepoorte
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 00:00

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I want to put some functionality behind my Edit->Cut/Copy/Paste/Undo/Redo
etc. menuitems.

Before i can do that, i need to know which component in my user-interface
has the current focus. I was hoping i could use some kind of Swing mechanism
for determining that. (i know how to do it using
java.awt.event.FocusListener, but you have to add a FocusListener to EVERY
UI component. That's NOT something i want to do for some simple
cut/copy/paste functionality).

Can anybody perhaps help me with extending FocusManager or using
SwingUtilities?

Any help is greatly appreciated,

Jeroen Zwartepoorte

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