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//
//  UISegmentedControl+Vertical.swift
//  Make a UISegmentedControl vertical by setting mySegmentedControl.vertical = true
//
//  Created by Yonat Sharon on 14/9/14.
//  Copyright (c) 2014 Yonat Sharon. All rights reserved.
//

import UIKit

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extension String {
    /**
     Perl style substring

     - parameter offset: Negative offset starts that far back from the end of the string
     - parameter length: Negative length leaves that many characters off the end of the string. Omit to return everything through the end of the string.
     */
    func substr(offset: Int, length: Int = 0) -> String {
        let start = offset < 0 ? endIndex.advancedBy(offset, limit: startIndex) : startIndex.advancedBy(offset, limit: endIndex)
        let end = length > 0 ? start.advancedBy(length, limit: endIndex) : endIndex.advancedBy(length, limit: startIndex)

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class DoesSomethingInBackground
{
    var backgroundTaskID: UIBackgroundTaskIdentifier = UIBackgroundTaskInvalid

    func beginBackgroundTask() {
        guard UIBackgroundTaskInvalid == backgroundTaskID else {return}
        backgroundTaskID = UIApplication.sharedApplication().beginBackgroundTaskWithExpirationHandler { () -> Void in
            self.endBackgroundTask()
        }
    }

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//
//  FBSDKGraphRequest+Paging.h
//  Facebook Paging Extension
//
//  Created by Yonat Sharon on 04.04.2016.
//  Copyright © 2016 Yonat Sharon. All rights reserved.
//

#import <FBSDKCoreKit/FBSDKCoreKit.h>

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/// Show an OK/Cancel modal box that works in both iOS 7 and iOS 8
func ask(title: String, #message: String, #completion: (answer: Bool) -> Void) {
    if nil != objc_getClass("UIAlertController".UTF8String) { // use UIAlertController
        let alertController = UIAlertController(title: title, message: message, preferredStyle: .Alert)
        let cancelAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel", style: .Cancel, handler: { (action) -> Void in
            completion(answer: false)
        })
        let okayAction = UIAlertAction(title: "OK", style: .Default, handler: { (action) -> Void in
            completion(answer: true)
        })

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Although the file name for the image is set automatically by iOS to IMG_nnnn, we can use metadata to set the title that will be shown in Photos app.

For more details see http://ootips.org/yonat/how-to-set-the-image-name-when-saving-to-the-camera-roll/

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>Consumables</key>
	<dict>
		<key>com.steinlogic.dummyconsumable.pack10</key>
		<dict>
			<key>ConsumableCount</key>
			<integer>10</integer>

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//
//  Badge.swift
//  Extensions for Rounded UILabel and UIButton, Badged UIBarButtonItem.
//
//  Usage:
//      let label = UILabel(badgeText: "Rounded Label");
//      let button = UIButton(type: .System); button.rounded = true
//      let barButton = UIBarButtonItem(badge: "42", title: "How Many Roads", target: self, action: "answer")
//
//  Created by Yonat Sharon on 06.04.2015.