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/**
Adds views to containerView, along with constraints to stack them vertically
and fill horozintally.
*/
func addVerticallyStackedViews(views:[UIView], toView containerView:UIView) -> [NSLayoutConstraint]
{
  for v in views {
    v.setTranslatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints(false)
    containerView.addSubview(v)
  }

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// code from: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2451223/uibutton-how-to-center-an-image-and-a-text-using-imageedgeinsets-and-titleedgei/24294816#24294816

extension UIButton {
  func centerLabelVerticallyWithPadding(spacing:CGFloat) {
    // update positioning of image and title
    let imageSize = self.imageView.frame.size
    self.titleEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsets(top:0,
                                        left:-imageSize.width,
                                        bottom:-(imageSize.height + spacing),
                                        right:0)

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// in a playground, pause execution wait until the condition pred is true
func waitUntilTrue(@autoclosure pred:()->Bool, secondsUntilTimeout duration:NSTimeInterval = 25)
{
  let previousPlayGroundRunStatus = XCPExecutionShouldContinueIndefinitely()
  XCPSetExecutionShouldContinueIndefinitely(continueIndefinitely: true)
  
  let start = NSDate()
  while true {
    if pred() {
      NSLog("condition met.")

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// works as of Swift 1.2, 2015-08-29

// https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/technotes/tn2232/_index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/DTS40012884-CH1-SECNSURLSESSION

class NSURLSessionAllowBadCertificateDelegate : NSObject, NSURLSessionDelegate
{
  func URLSession(session: NSURLSession, didReceiveChallenge challenge: NSURLAuthenticationChallenge, completionHandler: (NSURLSessionAuthChallengeDisposition, NSURLCredential!) -> Void)
  {
    if challenge.protectionSpace.authenticationMethod == NSURLAuthenticationMethodServerTrust
    {

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// Swift 1.2
// synchronous JSON download

import XCPlayground

// my goodness all this complexity is just for an unconditional synchronous
// get in a playground on HTTP or HTTPS and decoding to JSON. sad.

public func waitUntilTrue(@autoclosure pred:()->Bool, secondsUntilTimeout duration:NSTimeInterval = 25)
{

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import Foundation
import ImageIO


//
// before
//

func datesFromImagesInDir(dir: String) -> [NSDate] {
  let fm = NSFileManager.defaultManager()

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import UIKit

//: # Paragraphs, lines, breaks, and spacing in attributed strings

/*:
The cocoa text system lets you separately adjust line spacing and paragraph spacing.

This playground investigates a few questions concerning these spacing configurations and text layout:

1. Do empty UILabels collapse to zero height?

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//: Playground - noun: a place where people can play

import UIKit

/*:

This playground shows a bug in how `NSAttributedString.boundingRectWithSize(_:options:context:)` handles attributed strings containing the LINE SEPARATOR character when the .UsesDeviceMetrics option is not included.

When the `.UsesDeviceMetrics` option is set, the function is supposed to return the bounding rect where the height is what is required to bound the particular glyphs in the string.

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let v = UIView()
// use `performSelector` to workaround that the method is private
// use `takeRetainedValue` to get an AnyObject
// use the forced cast because we know it's a string
let s = v.performSelector("recursiveDescription").takeRetainedValue() as! String
// convert the string to a fixed width font, so the quicklook is useful
NSAttributedString(string: s, attributes: [UIFontDescriptorFeatureSettingsAttribute:[UIFontFeatureTypeIdentifierKey:kMonospacedTextSelector]])

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/// Given `path`, drawn with `width`, returns a new path outlining its edges
func pathOutliningPath(path:UIBezierPath, withWidth width:CGFloat, inSize size:CGSize) -> UIBezierPath
{
  UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(size, false, 0)
  let ctx = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()
  CGContextSetLineWidth(ctx, width)
  CGContextAddPath(ctx, path.CGPath)
  CGContextReplacePathWithStrokedPath(ctx)
  let extractedCGPath = CGContextCopyPath(ctx)
  UIGraphicsEndImageContext()