Looks like I am seeing the same issue. I was able to work around the error in 2017a+ by just adding an invisible figure and having the program wait for it.

fig = figure('Visible',0);
jFrame.setVisible(true);
if isdeployed
    waitfor(fig);
end

Then we need to do a system exit, not dispose, I think to cleanly remove the figure. Hopefully there is a better implementation, but it works for now.

Alternatively, set the Java frame’s default close operation to DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE, as follows:

jFrame.setDefaultCloseOperation(jFrame.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);  % rather than EXIT_ON_CLOSE

@Michael – look here: http://undocumentedmatlab.com/blog/modifying-matlab-look-and-feel
You’d probably want to modify the L&F only during your figure creation, and restore it back to the default immediately following the GUI creation.

defaults = javax.swing.UIManager.getLookAndFeelDefaults();
defaults.put('textHighlight', java.awt.Color(1, 0, 0));

As the result the text highlighting of the Matlab Command window changes to red colour, but nothing changes in any of the figures. Pausing and drawnow doesn’t help. Is there a workaround?

E.g.

public class JavaWindow
        extends JFrame implements WindowListener{
...
@Override
    public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e) {
        
    }

I have this same issue on r2018b.

The line ‘waitfor(jframe)’ does not work any more, resulting in error ‘conversion to double from jframe is not possible’

I tried to run the example, and compiled the example (matlab 2017a). It works for a few minutes, but a new problem appears, the exe crashed with a error (“jframe cannot convert to double”). Do you have any idea how to solve this?
Kind regards

@zb – this is not the problem; the problem is that you try to set the callback on a naked Java reference instead of on the handle() of that reference. Read the blog post that I mentioned carefully and then fix your code.

i know what is the problem , i use matlab 2016b. My friend with matlab2013a doesn’t have the same problem and it works well.
Do you know why there are those changes in the new version of Matlab?

Sadly, even by using handle(jFrame,’CallbackProperties’) , it doesnt work :

The name ‘ComponentResizedCallback’ is not an accessible property for an instance of class
‘javax.swing.JFrame’.