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It's quiet a long time ago since I have committed something to this project the last time...

Now I have some days off over Easter, this will be the perfect time to refactor the bloody sourcecode of this application. It's always nice to see, what things you will do different in a project after not touching it for a year.

There won't be much features more after this weekend, my aim is more to make some experiences with code-refactoring. But I think, I'll translate the application to english.

I took an hour of my time (ok, two hours) and switched the file-format. First, there was a serialized ArrayList. So the files were binary and not editable without the JStreb0r-Application. Now its a simple XML-Format which will be accessed with JDOM.

There will be a simple Converter callable from the terminal (java Converter Unit.voci Unit.xml).

Now, the tool seems to work basically. It's still a prototype (ugly code, hard-coded GUI-captions and stuff like that), but it works! :-)

In the next days, I try to improve this ugly code.

The next steps will be:
- Testing and Bugfixing (if necessary)
- Swap GUI-captions into XML-File and load at runtime
- Beautify sourcecode
- Create tabbed editors
- Make table editable directly (without text-boxes ond top of the MainShell)
- Enable Copy/Paste of multiple rows in table
- Save wordpairs in a XML-structure and/or in csv-format
- ...... read more

I have found some spare time in my calendar, so I started coding on this "project" (it's still so tiny).

I decided to use SWT as GUI-Framework rather than Swing. Not because SWT is the "better" framework, it's just easier to code and the Swing integration into the native platform didn't become as well as I hoped for (better done in Windows than in GTK). Swing is still the mightier framework as SWT and in my opinion, it's "more object-orientated" than SWT. But don't care what I say...
Anyway, I'll use SWT for this one :-)