Why am I keep getting "Unrecognized function or variable 'title'. " and "Variable might be used before it is defined" for dynamic title in app designer

This is the code for the title:

title(app.UIAxes,['From ' char(cell2mat(app.PastMonthName)) ' of ' num2str(app.PastYear) ' to ' char(cell2mat(app.CurrentMonthName)) ' of ' num2str(app.CurrentYear) ' '], FontSize=20)

char(cell2mat(app.PastMonthName)) -------> results in "March"

num2str(app.PastYear) ------------------------------------> results in 2021

char(cell2mat(app.CurrentMonthName)) ------> results in "October"

num2str(app.CurrentYear) --------------------------------> results in 2022

This is the function Plotting(app) that the title() is in:

function Plotting(app)
    if ConditionA
    %code here etc etc
        if ConditionA && ConditionPizza
            %code here etc etc
            if ConditionWood && ConditionA && ConditionPizza
                %code here etc etc
                if ConditionCelticsWillLose && ConditionWood && ConditionA && ConditionPizza
                %code here etc etc
                title(app.UIAxes,['From ' char(cell2mat(app.PastMonthName)) ' of ' num2str(app.PastYear) ' to ' char(cell2mat(app.CurrentMonthName)) ' of ' num2str(app.CurrentYear) ' '], FontSize=20)
                end
            end
        end
    end
end

I keep getting this error: "Variable might be used before it is defined"

The Command Window shoes a little bit more clarification: "Unrecognized function or variable 'title'."

Unrecognized function or variable 'title'.

Error in CSat_App/Plotting (line 201)
                            title(app.UIAxes,['% of Units Able to Successfully Transmit Data from ' char(cell2mat(app.PastMonthNameBU1)) ' ' num2str(app.PastMonthYearBU1) ' to ' char(cell2mat(app.CurrMonthNameBU1)) ' ' num2str(app.CurrMonthYearBU1) ' '],FontSize=20)
                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Error in CSat_App/ListBoxValueChanged (line 2642)
            Plotting(app);
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Error in matlab.apps.AppBase>@(source,event)executeCallback(ams,app,callback,requiresEventData,event) (line 60)
            newCallback = @(source, event)executeCallback(ams, ...
                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
Error while evaluating ListBox PrivateValueChangedFcn.

My ListBox PrivateValueChangedFcn is:

function ListBoxValueChanged(app, event)            
    app.ListBox.Items = vertcat({'All Customers'}, app.uniqueNummyNums);
    app.valueFromListBox = app.ListBox.Value;
    Plotting(app);
end

Community, do you have any suggestions as to how to resolve this?

I have no variable assigned to title(), so I am not understanding how the title() can be used before it is defined.

The dynamic variables, PastMonthName, CurrentMonthName, PastYear, and CurrentYear, are all defined early on in the startupFcn(app) way before Plotting(app) is stated. Plotting(app) is the last line of code in the startupFcn() as well as the ListBoxValueChanged(app,event) functions.

I am thinking that the 'event' input in ListBoxValueChanged(app,event) may be significant in some way, but I cannot see how.

[Stephen23]

"Community, do you have any suggestions as to how to resolve this?"

Get rid of the variable named "title".

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

Very likely, at some later point in the code you have an assignment to title . MATLAB "looks forward" and sees the eventual assignment, so it decides that "title" must be a variable for the purposes of the code, but at that point in the code the variable has not yet been defined.

[Jay Coin]

Yes, you are right! Turns out, a popup message I coded in accidently used title as a variable.