The '*' in gtk rcstrings? (was Re: Setting the background colour of a container)

[learfox furry ao net]

> gchar *rcstring = "
> style 'blue_background' {
>         bg[NORMAL] = { 0.0, 0.0, 1.0 }
> }
>
> widget '*some_blue_fixed_widget' style 'blue_background'
> ";

The above string was given by WolfGang I think, but what I noticed
was that the name '*some_blue_fixed_widget' was used instead of
'some_blue_fixed_widget'. I tried this example and only with the * did
it work.

Is there a reason the * should be in there? what does * mean?


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