[Boost-users] finding documentation & reference

From: HeroreV (herorev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-05-18 23:44:56

The documentation at boost.org is quite confusing. I just spent way too 
much time trying to figure out how to get a ptr_vector to let go of 
anything without destroying it or giving control to another ptr_vector.

The page at http://boost.org/libs/ptr_container/doc/ptr_vector.html 
doesn't say a single word about release(). The page also makes 
ptr_vector appear to only inherit from ptr_sequence_adapter which also 
mentions nothing about release().

It wasn't until I went to the examples page at 
http://boost.org/libs/ptr_container/doc/examples.html that I saw 
anything about release(), and even then it was barely passed over so it 
took a few minutes more of guessing to get things working.

Is there a good reference list that shows all member functions of the 
various boost classes? Or any advice on how I'm supposed to use the 
documentation? I really don't know how I'm supposed to learn boost when 
key features aren't mentioned, unless users are expected to go through 
all the source to ever learn anything.

- HeroreV