Is it possible to use a string as a member name?

[bretjoseph]

I'm using Gtkmm3 and I have a custom widget CustomWidget. I want to instantiate CutomWidget like so

  string name = "Account" + std::to_string(m_notebook.get_n_pages() + 1);
  //name will be generated eg Account1
  CustomWidget *name = new CustomWidget;
  //Which will be for example
  //CustomWidget *Account2 = new CustomWidget;
  m_notebook.append_page(*name);
  //m_notebook.append_page(*Account2); 

How can I make the notebook realize the string Account2 as a "member name". I don't know what its called that why I am calling it member name

[Peter87]

No, but you can accomplish something similar using a map.

std::map<std::string, CustomWidget*> m_widgets;

m_widgets[name] = new CustomWidget;
m_notebook.append_page(m_widgets[name]);

[bretjoseph]

Its not working please checkout the code on https://github.com/devab-lab/cnc

[AbstractionAnon]

string name = "Name" + n;
  //name will be generated eg Name1 

That's not going to do what you're thinking it does.
n is an int. You trying to append an int to a string.
n is going to be converted to a char with a value of binary 1, not ASCII "1".

CustomWidget *name = new CustomWidget;

That's not going to work either,. name is not a pointer and can;t be dereferenced.

[bretjoseph]

AbstractionAnon I have fixed that in my github page, but still after proper coversion Im getting a t instead of Name+n as a string. with gtk thats the stage at which you define a variable as a pointer