Yes, the point of using a library is to save time. Spending an hour searching for a particular function reference is certainly a bother. I have seen instances

Yes, the point of using a library is to save time. Spending an hour searching for a particular function reference is certainly a bother. I have seen instances where I discovered that I could have written the raw code myself faster than finding the answer to use the 'easy to use' interface. An example of this was a program library I was using that handled graphics. I wanted to used graphics that were compressed within one file instead of having separate bitmaps for each. I searched for hours for a solution using the library, and I never got it to work. So, instead, I wrote something that would decompress the files into memory and let the library simply pull the images from memory. I then had difficulty with this so I made something that loaded the images from memory instead. I still used the library for its other features, but this part was a complete pain, and I could have saved time simply by writing these parts by myself. Documentation is important! (However, I am guilty of not writing documentation. The fun is always in the process of creating not the process of explaining.)