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Purpose of this PR:

Let the localization service own language-change events and have the global facade forward them. XAML translation markup now returns an observable binding that updates on the UI thread.

Refresh persistent layout text and active settings labels/dropdowns in place. Changing the language no longer recreates the main window or current page.

Based on #500. Merge after the lower layers; no validation-PR dependency.

How to Test:

dotnet test WheelWizard.sln

582 tests passed (562 unit, 20 headless UI). Checks retain the same window/page/control instances, verify background-thread binding updates and disposal, and verify event forwarding when services change. Manually switch languages in settings and confirm focus/navigation state is preserved.

What Has Been Changed:

See the focused implementation above. The existing settings JSON contract and imported translation sheets are preserved.

Related Issue Link:

No linked issue. Part of native GitHub stack #503.

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  • New Features
    • Translated text now updates throughout the app when the language changes, including content that is already open.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Language changes made outside the UI thread now refresh visible text and layout safely on the UI thread.
    • Settings language changes refresh localized controls and fields without replacing the current page or window.

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Localization services now report language changes through the active provider. Translation bindings and application views update localized content when the language changes. Tests cover event forwarding, UI-thread updates, disposal, and language changes while the settings page is displayed.

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Localization updates

Layer / File(s) Summary
Language-change events
WheelWizard/Features/Localization/*, WheelWizard/Features/Settings/SettingsLocalizationService.cs, WheelWizard.Test/Features/Localization/TranslationFunctionsTests.cs
Localization services expose language-change events. LocalizationProvider forwards events from its active service and avoids duplicate notifications for unchanged language values. Settings initialization registers the service before applying the current language.
Live translation bindings
WheelWizard/Features/Localization/T.cs, WheelWizard.UI.Test/LocalizationBindingTests.cs
T.ProvideValue returns a binding that publishes the current translation and updates on language changes. Updates are dispatched to the UI thread, and disposal removes the event handler.
Localized view refresh
WheelWizard/Views/Layout.axaml.cs, WheelWizard/Views/Pages/Settings/WhWzSettings.axaml.cs, WheelWizard.UI.Test/ApplicationCompositionTests.cs
The layout and settings page handle language changes on the UI thread and refresh localized content. The settings page refreshes its dropdowns and location-related UI. The UI test checks translated text while the same window, page, and wizard remain displayed.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant EmbeddedYamlLocalizationService
  participant LocalizationProvider
  participant TranslationBinding
  participant AvaloniaUI
  EmbeddedYamlLocalizationService->>LocalizationProvider: Raise LanguageChanged
  LocalizationProvider->>TranslationBinding: Forward active service change
  TranslationBinding->>AvaloniaUI: Dispatch translation update
  AvaloniaUI->>AvaloniaUI: Display updated text
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 5b6cb

Changing the language could rarely push one stale text update into a binding that was just disposed. This is low impact and can be fixed with a small guard.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 5b6cb

Language switching remains an application-local operation with validated settings and embedded translations. No new security weakness was established in the inspected paths. Remaining uncertainty concerns concurrent service replacement, callbacks during shutdown, and incomplete security coverage.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The inspected notification path fans out within the application to translated controls, persistent layout text, and active settings views. This establishes application-wide presentation impact, but does not establish expansion into another tenant, service, credential authority, or data store.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The checked language-selection path retains user confirmation and catalog validation. Its new notification carries no language payload or external identity; consumers resolve text through the current provider.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Cleanup protects future notifications, but view unsubscription does not cancel already-posted callbacks, and forwarding does not verify sender identity during concurrent replacement. These are bounded lifecycle uncertainties, not established security vulnerabilities; production race exposure and security-sensitive consequences were not demonstrated.
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@DirkDoes DirkDoes changed the title Update translations in place when the language changes Refresh translations without recreating the window Sep 28, 2026
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DirkDoes force-pushed the task/live-localization branch from a5f8584 to 5b6cb76 Compare October 3, 2026 11:32
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Review comments at @WheelWizard/Features/Localization/T.cs:
- Around line 35-48: Add a thread-visible disposed flag to the subscription in
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  • WheelWizard.Test/Features/Localization/TranslationFunctionsTests.cs
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  • WheelWizard.UI.Test/LocalizationBindingTests.cs
  • WheelWizard/Features/Localization/EmbeddedYamlLocalizationService.cs
  • WheelWizard/Features/Localization/ILocalizationService.cs
  • WheelWizard/Features/Localization/LocalizationExtensions.cs
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Comment on lines +35 to +48
private void OnLanguageChanged(object? sender, EventArgs args)
{
if (Dispatcher.UIThread.CheckAccess())
Publish();
else
Dispatcher.UIThread.Post(Publish);
}

private void Publish() => _observer?.OnNext(TranslationFunctions.t(_key));

public void Dispose()
{
LocalizationProvider.LanguageChanged -= OnLanguageChanged;
_observer = null;

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Disposal does not stop a publish that is already queued.

OnLanguageChanged posts Publish to the UI thread when a change arrives on another thread. A subscription can be disposed after that post and before Publish runs. In that case Publish still runs. _observer is not volatile, and Dispose can run on another thread, so Publish may still read the old observer and push a stale value into a binding that was torn down. Add a _disposed flag. Check the flag inside the posted delegate.

Proposed fix
-        private void Publish() => _observer?.OnNext(TranslationFunctions.t(_key));
+        private volatile bool _disposed;
+        private void Publish()
+        {
+            if (_disposed)
+                return;
+            _observer?.OnNext(TranslationFunctions.t(_key));
+        }

         public void Dispose()
         {
+            _disposed = true;
             LocalizationProvider.LanguageChanged -= OnLanguageChanged;
             _observer = null;
         }
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private void OnLanguageChanged(object? sender, EventArgs args)
{
if (Dispatcher.UIThread.CheckAccess())
Publish();
else
Dispatcher.UIThread.Post(Publish);
}
private void Publish() => _observer?.OnNext(TranslationFunctions.t(_key));
public void Dispose()
{
LocalizationProvider.LanguageChanged -= OnLanguageChanged;
_observer = null;
private void OnLanguageChanged(object? sender, EventArgs args)
{
if (Dispatcher.UIThread.CheckAccess())
Publish();
else
Dispatcher.UIThread.Post(Publish);
}
private volatile bool _disposed;
private void Publish()
{
if (_disposed)
return;
_observer?.OnNext(TranslationFunctions.t(_key));
}
public void Dispose()
{
_disposed = true;
LocalizationProvider.LanguageChanged -= OnLanguageChanged;
_observer = null;
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Review comment at @WheelWizard/Features/Localization/T.cs around lines 35 - 48:
Add a thread-visible disposed flag to the subscription in T, set it in Dispose,
and have Publish return without notifying when disposed so a previously queued
UI-thread callback cannot publish after teardown.

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reviewed this against #500. the existing tests pass locally: 581 unit tests and 20 ui tests.

[p2] translated view-model properties also need a language-change notification.

repro: keep the home page visible and change the language setting to dutch through the settings service. the home view model now returns "config niet voltooid", but its action button still displays "config not finished".

the new observable binding updates the translation markup, but the home button uses a normal binding to a translated view-model property. that model never notifies the binding when the language changes. please refresh those translated properties on the ui thread and unsubscribe when the model is disposed. an existing-home-page test would cover the gap left by the current settings-page test.

location: the home action text in homeviewmodel.cs and its binding in homepage.axaml, alongside the new language-change notifications.

i confirmed this with a failing headless ui regression test in an isolated copy of this commit.

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DirkDoes removed this pull request from stack #503 October 4, 2026 10:04
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DirkDoes added this pull request to stack #508 October 4, 2026 10:06
Base automatically changed from task/localization-plurals to main October 4, 2026 10:34
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