The interface is German or English, chosen per operator profile on the GUI tab, in force at
once in every open window, and remembered across restarts. 376 texts in both languages.
The texts are ordinary .properties files that nobody has to compile: a contributor copies the
English one, translates the values, and opens a pull request. A third module -- build tooling
that never ships -- turns them into Kotlin before anything compiles, which is what makes a
mistyped key and a wrong argument count compile errors rather than things an operator
discovers. It lives in the main build rather than buildSrc because buildSrc's tests do not run
on `./gradlew build`, measured, and a generator whose tests never run is the exact failure it
exists to prevent.
Incompleteness is allowed and incorrectness is not. A missing key warns and falls back to
English, so a partial contributed language can be submitted at all; an orphan key, a
placeholder the translation drops, a duplicate key or an unreadable file fail the build with
the generator's own message naming the file. The argument count always comes from the English
base. German is held complete by a test because it ships; a contributed language is not.
What is deliberately not translated is the harder half. Protocol frames and chat commands
would break the connection or go unread; the beacon texts, auto answers, snippets and
shortcuts go to other radio amateurs and sit in every operator's stored profile; the 273
println calls in core are diagnostics, and a German stack trace is worse for whoever reads the
bug report; and QRA, QRG, QTF, LOS, Fresnel and wkd read the same in either language. Three
tests guard the boundary by measuring behaviour rather than text: the protocol frames built
under three locales, every preference default compared by reflection, and no translation value
being a protocol command. The reflective one is the only one that covers what nobody thought
of.
One insight turned up three times. Anything built outside a composition freezes the language it
was built in: the window title, the settings tab strip and every column header are all
constructed once at startup -- the columns from Java -- so each now holds a function read when
it is drawn. That also fixed something older and unrelated to language: the main window's title
was a fixed "KST4Contest (Compose)" for the whole session, where the JavaFX window had carried
the live connection line. It carries it again.
A column's id is never translated. It is what the remembered widths and order are keyed on.
Etappen 1 and 2 of the Compose migration (43 commits).
The Maven build, the single source tree and the JPMS module-info went together.
core now holds the domain and app-desktop the user interface, both built by
Gradle, packaged through jpackage from Gradle, with SpotBugs and PMD wired in.
JavaFX moves to the classpath, which is why the launcher is Main and not the
Application subclass. The PR check, the nightly artifacts, the release and the
AUR packages all build from Gradle; the macOS DMG points at its output.
Verified on Linux, macOS and Windows.
core then loses JavaFX entirely. It observes through kst4contest.observe --
ObservableValue, ObservableRoster, and UiDispatcher as the one boundary a
worker thread crosses to touch the interface. The controller collections become
rosters and the visible station list a pure derivation rather than a
FilteredList/SortedList chain, which is also what fixed two focus defects only
a load test had exposed: the keyboard focus stays where the operator put it,
and the send field keeps it after a row click.
The rule that outlives this commit: ObservableRoster is the store and the list
a view is bound to is a mirror of it, never the other way round.
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