Problems using structs in appdesigner as private properties

I have a problem when trying to get some variables out of a struct in order to use them as a property in my app. I tried the following:

properties (Access = private)

        %%load results
        phase =   coder.load('phase.mat');

        %%extract variables
        s        = phase.phase.StateGrid.Values(1,:);

The following error appears:

Undefined variable "phase" or class "phase.phase.StateGrid.Values".

If I use exactly the same lines in Matlab the code works. I also tried the following, but this did not help neither:

properties (Access = private)

        %%load results
        phase =   coder.load('phase.mat');

        %%extract variables
        s = app.phase.phase.StateGrid.Values(1,:);

Answer 1

[Steven Lord]

You're assuming that the code to initialize the phase property executes before the code to initialize the s property. I'm not sure that assumption is safe to make. I would probably:

1. Make s a Dependent property whose get.s property accessor method retrieves the value of the phase property, or
2. Declare that phase and s are properties, and possibly initialize phase in the properties block, but wait to initialize s until the constructor executes.