Re: [Boost-users] Graph and external properties

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Graph and external properties
From: Jeremiah Willcock (jewillco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-11-24 18:29:46

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011, g4hx wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I am currently trying to implement a graph algorithm using boost::graph
> but I ran into a problem which I don't know how to fix. I already asked
> this question
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8234910/external-property-map-tied-to-stdvector-in-boost-graph-library
> but I got no answer yet, apart from someone telling me that
> "Boost.Graph" is borderline unusable. I thought that you people wouldn't
> let this stand, so I am just asking you: I need some variables stored in
> a vector to be accessible via an operator[](edge_descriptor&), I think
> that this could be done using external properties, but since I already
> use bundled internal properties, I am not sure how to go ahead. I
> basically need something as in
> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_36_0/libs/property_map/iterator_property_map.html.
> I would very much appreciate it someone would just drop me a few lines
> of code to illustrate how to solve the problem.

I just answered this on the StackOverflow page you posted.  See if that 
answer is helpful.

-- Jeremiah Willcock