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>The widget name path constructed for a Label consists of
the widget names of its object hierarchy as well, e.g.</P
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>window (name: humphrey)</TT
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> hbox</TT
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> label (name: mylabel)</TT
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>The widget path your pattern needs to match would be:
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>The resource file may look something like:</P
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widget "*mylabel" style "title"</PRE
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>In your program, you would also need to give a name to
the Label widget, which can be done using:</P
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> label = gtk_label_new("Some Label Text");
gtk_widget_set_name(label, "mylabel");
gtk_widget_show(label);</PRE
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