Devlog #4

Last time SubBake had a face and working hands. This time it learned to speak two languages, moved into a real server, and nearly broke me on the way in. The deployment deserves its own section, because nothing about it went right the first time.

One language became two

Every user-facing string had been hardcoded in English while I built the thing. Now it all funnels through one translation table — t("btn.start") instead of "Start SubBake" — with a language combo in the corner that re-renders the whole window live, no restart. The trick that makes it work: widgets register a callback on a global listener list, and flipping the language calls every one of them.
One slight downside is that the font changes when using Korean, which alters the layout; however, I was already so exhausted from dealing with the language settings that I didn’t have the energy to tweak it. I might adjust it later if I have the time, but I trust it will be fine since most people will likely be viewing it in English.

Click, not just drag

The drop zone now opens a file picker on click, with mixed multi-select for files and folders. Qt’s native dialog refuses to do that, so the code forces the Qt built-in dialog, switches it to directory mode, and then flips every internal list view to extended selection. It feels like a hack because it is one. It works beautifully.

The web demo

To ensure you can easily test and enjoy the project, I have deployed it using a domain in addition to providing the build files. SubBake now lives at a public URL — a FastAPI wrapper around the same core/ modules (imported, not copied), served from my home server VM, fronted by nginx, reached through a Cloudflare tunnel. Upload a video and a subtitle, watch the progress bar, download the result. Files vanish on a timer.

So, the bottom line is that while you can download the Windows and Linux-compatible executables from GitHub to run the project, you can also test it using the URL provided here (the code is identical in both cases).