How to pass handles into certain GUI callbacks Matlab - matlab

Question

I'm writing a matlab program and I'm trying to pass around my handles struct to ALL my callbacks. The only problem is that I'm using GUIDE and I can't pass in handles as an argument to a function I created:
%The proper slider callback: Deleted the default within GUIDE
function sliderContValCallback(hFigure,eventdata)
%test it out- get the handles object and dispay the current value
%getappdata(handles.video_loader_button,'handles');
handles = guidata(hFigure);
handles.currentFrame = floor(get(handles.slider,'Value'));
set(handles.frameBox,'String',num2str(handles.currentFrame));
fprintf('slider value: %f\n',get(handles.slider,'Value'));
updateAxes(handles);
The problem is that the way I'm 'getting' handles right now is that it isn't really the same handles that the rest of the UI object callback functions are using. I also thought of passing handles around with getappdata, but you need handles to even do that so I'm stuck. This has been causing some problems, any help as to how to get around this would be awesome, thanks!
EDIT:
I deleted the call back generated by GUIDE, so that I could use sliderContValCallback as a function handle and call it here:
handles.sliderListener = addlistener(handles.slider,'ContinuousValueChange',...
#(hFigure,eventdata) sliderContValCallback(hObject,eventdata));
for continuous updates as the user drags the slider(This is used to scroll through a video, and its working well).
The real reason I'm questioning this is because when I call:
allCoords = getappdata(handles.axes1,'mydata');
coordsXYZ = allCoords.clickcoordinates; %Do this to access the field 'allCoords' within 'mydata'
curIndex = allCoords.currentIndex;
if numel(coordsXYZ)>0
for i = 1:length(coordsXYZ)
coordXY = [coordsXYZ(i).x,coordsXYZ(i).y];
%viscircles(handles.axes1,coordXY,1,'EdgeColor','r');
hold on;
plot(coordsXYZ(i).x,coordsXYZ(i).y,'o');
end
end
everything works but a figure is generated for some reason, the plot is drawn to an image on handles.axes1. It's weird because this random figure pops up ONLY when I update the slider by moving it.