Hi You don't have to use myWidget->parent since you dereference the pointer. A pointer to a struct always points to the first field of the topmost nesting level.
so it would be: gtk_widget_set_name(myWidget); Bests, Joël On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 6:29 PM, S. Jacobi <sjac...@mailueberfall.de> wrote: > On Mon, 20 Mar 2017 18:10:16 +0100 > Joël Krähemann <jkraehem...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi >> >> As Tristan told you. The struct contains the other struct as not using >> a pointer. >> >> struct MyCompositeWidget >> { >> GtkAlignment alignment; >> >> GtkBox *box; >> }; >> > The parent-is-a-pointer mistake was just me not thinking when I wrote > the mail. If have seen it being done correctly everywhere. This makes > gtk_widget_set_name (myWidget->parent, "myWidget"); syntactically wrong > however. > _______________________________________________ > gtk-app-devel-list mailing list > gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list