I am trying to run a MATLAB GUI I have created. If I open the .fig file using GUIDE and press the run button there, it runs perfectly.

However, when I double-click the .fig file in the 'Current Folder' section of MATLAB, it seems to be unable to find the `handles` variable. This causes it to give an error whenever `handles` is used.

Why does this happen? Is there a fix/workaround?

I'm using MATLAB R2011, but I've tried it on R2012 as well. The code runs fine, and displays the GUI fine, but the moment it encounters the `handles` variable, it gives the following error:

**Attempt to reference field of non-structure array.**