diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f3357cf5..721d8275 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ CHANGELOG for FlatCAM beta
 
 - had a first shot in creating a way to show the log messages in the Tcl Shell if a setting in Preferences is set
 - fixed Isolation Tool tool table context menu pointing at the same method for the menu entries: Add Tool and Pick from DB
+- made sure that the GUI element FCInputDialogSpinnerButton has the spinner element auto-selected on launch
 
 24.11.2020
 
diff --git a/appGUI/GUIElements.py b/appGUI/GUIElements.py
index 492350ae..ca9a7eb2 100644
--- a/appGUI/GUIElements.py
+++ b/appGUI/GUIElements.py
@@ -2487,6 +2487,7 @@ class FCInputDialogSpinnerButton(QtWidgets.QDialog):
 
         self.wdg = FCButtonWithDoubleSpinner(min=self.min, max=self.max, step=self.step, decimals=decimals,
                                              button_text=button_text, button_icon=button_icon, callback=callback)
+        self.wdg.spinner.selectAll()
         self.wdg.set_value(self.init_value)
 
         QBtn = QtWidgets.QDialogButtonBox.Ok | QtWidgets.QDialogButtonBox.Cancel