Dates & Components in Swift 2.0

Another topic that has been changed in Swift 2.0 is how to work with dates. I’m digging into this topic for my upcoming app and I’ve found that most documentation on the web refers to Swift 1.2. So here are some snippets to create dates using components: //CreateDateFromComponents (1st January 2016)        var …

Evaluate string width and return CGFloat (Swift, OSX)

This morning I’ve been working in a Swift function to detect the width of a given text and return a CGFloat.  I’ve not found that many examples on the web for OSX, so here you have what I’ve done in all of its glory: func evaluateStringWidth (textToEvaluate: String) -> CGFloat{     letfont = NSFont.userFontOfSize(NSFont.systemFontSize()) …