Change of properties of UI dynamic components (AppDesigner)

Hello!! I am trying to develop an app that, when a first button is pressed, it creates a set of leds forming a matrix with a known number of rows and columns, and when a second button is pressed, the color of one of those leds is changed. The code described is the following:

% Button pushed function: ApplyButton
function ApplyButtonPushed(app, event)
    val_col = 80;                                   % Move to here for starting value
    val_fila = 30;                                  % Move to here for starting value
    for i = 1:app.NrowsEditField.Value              % Known number of rows      
        for j = 1:app.NcolumnsEditField.Value       % Known number of columns
            
            %   Creation of lamps (positions)
                led(i,j) = uilamp(app.UIFigure);
                led(i,j).Color = [0 1 0];
                led(i,j).Position = [val_col val_fila 18 18];
            val_col = val_col + 30;
        end
        val_fila = val_fila + 30;
        val_col = 80;
    end
end

% Button pushed function: VisibleButton
function VisibleButtonPushed(app, event)
    led(1,2).Color = [1 0 0];               %   This command doesn't have effect
end

The problem is the second button doesn't change the color of the led. That's why I am searching for help. Thank you

Answer 1

[Steven Lord]

You don't appear to be storing the led array you created inside ApplyButtonPushed to any of the properties of your app, so it's a local variable that gets destroyed (along with the rest of the contents of the function's workspace) when that function finishes executing. You may expect that the VisibleButtonPushed function somehow "finds" that variable from the (deleted) workspace of that ApplyButtonPushed function call but it doesn't. Instead it creates a 1-by-2 struct array each element of which has one field, Color. That struct has no connection to the array of uilamp handles you created in ApplyButtonPushed.

Give your app a property that can store the array of uilamp objects. After creating the led array in ApplyButtonPushed, assign it to that property. In VisibleButtonPushed, get the contents of that property and (after validating that it has been populated by a previous call to ApplyButtonPushed) use it to refer to the selected lamp.

[Caio Lorenzo Iriarte Salles]

How could I create that property of storing? Sorry, but I am new in developing apps. Thank you for your answer

[Image Analyst]

@Caio Lorenzo Iriarte Salles attach your whole .mlapp file with the paperclip icon.