(REPOST) Global Function not working

Let me start this off saying that I'm not very familair with MATLAB. I'm a first year engineering student working on a final project and I might have decided to try a project a tad out of my lead. So please specific with your advice. With that said, here's my problem:

I have a total of 5 figures (GUI's) with pushbuttons. Under the pushbuttons function I have written:

global Variable_One Variable_One={1 'Name'}; close Then, in my script, I assign Variable_One to my workspace by using:

openfig('Figure1','reuse'); uiwait(Figure1) global Variable_One; With my first two figures, this works perfectly. However when trying to do the same with the third figure later on in the script, Variable_Three is assigned to [] rather than {3 'Name'} .

So frustrating! I'm so close to finishing this project. Plese, all help appreciated thank you.

[John D'Errico]

Wow! What a good advertisement for why NOT to use globals.

[Walter Roberson]

Duplicates http://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/215667-global-function-not-always-working