diff --git a/ZRCola/ZRCola.props b/ZRCola/ZRCola.props
index 5eebfca..f49f50e 100644
--- a/ZRCola/ZRCola.props
+++ b/ZRCola/ZRCola.props
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
   </PropertyGroup>
   <ItemDefinitionGroup>
     <ClCompile>
-      <AdditionalIncludeDirectories>..\lib\wxExtend\include;..\lib\libZRCola\include</AdditionalIncludeDirectories>
+      <AdditionalIncludeDirectories>..\lib\wxExtend\include;..\lib\stdex\include;..\lib\libZRCola\include</AdditionalIncludeDirectories>
     </ClCompile>
   </ItemDefinitionGroup>
   <ItemGroup />
diff --git a/ZRCola/stdafx.h b/ZRCola/stdafx.h
index c753e27..2c0294a 100644
--- a/ZRCola/stdafx.h
+++ b/ZRCola/stdafx.h
@@ -30,5 +30,8 @@
 #include <wx/msgdlg.h>
 #include <wxex/common.h>
 
+#include <fstream>
 #include <string>
 #include <vector>
+
+#include <stdex/idrec.h>
diff --git a/ZRCola/zrcolaapp.h b/ZRCola/zrcolaapp.h
index 8e4eb31..07ae7e9 100644
--- a/ZRCola/zrcolaapp.h
+++ b/ZRCola/zrcolaapp.h
@@ -42,3 +42,6 @@ public:
     /// - false otherwise
     virtual bool OnInit();
 };
+
+
+wxDECLARE_APP(ZRColaApp);
diff --git a/ZRCola/zrcolacomppnl.cpp b/ZRCola/zrcolacomppnl.cpp
index 84f1e5f..a06462f 100644
--- a/ZRCola/zrcolacomppnl.cpp
+++ b/ZRCola/zrcolacomppnl.cpp
@@ -30,6 +30,30 @@ wxZRColaComposerPanel::wxZRColaComposerPanel(wxWindow* parent) :
     m_selComposed(0, 0),
     wxZRColaComposerPanelBase(parent)
 {
+    wxString sPath(wxPathOnly(wxTheApp->argv[0]));
+    sPath << wxT("\\..\\data\\ZRCola.zrcdb"); // TODO: Make database file configurable
+
+    std::fstream dat((LPCTSTR)sPath, std::ios_base::in | std::ios_base::binary);
+    if (dat.good()) {
+        if (stdex::idrec::find<ZRCola::recordid_t, ZRCola::recordsize_t, ZRCOLA_RECORD_ALIGN>(dat, ZRCOLA_DB_ID, sizeof(ZRCola::recordid_t))) {
+            ZRCola::recordsize_t size;
+            dat.read((char*)&size, sizeof(ZRCola::recordsize_t));
+            if (dat.good()) {
+                ZRCola::translation_rec r_rec(m_t_db);
+                if (r_rec.find(dat, size)) {
+                    dat >> r_rec;
+                    if (!dat.good()) {
+                        wxFAIL_MSG(wxT("Error reading translation data from ZRCola.zrcdb."));
+                        m_t_db.  comp_index.clear();
+                        m_t_db.decomp_index.clear();
+                        m_t_db.        data.clear();
+                    }
+                } else
+                    wxFAIL_MSG(wxT("ZRCola.zrcdb has no translation data."));
+            }
+        } else
+            wxFAIL_MSG(wxT("ZRCola.zrcdb is not a valid ZRCola database."));
+    }
 }
 
 
diff --git a/ZRCola/zrcolacomppnl.h b/ZRCola/zrcolacomppnl.h
index a7f13b3..7c91caa 100644
--- a/ZRCola/zrcolacomppnl.h
+++ b/ZRCola/zrcolacomppnl.h
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ protected:
     virtual void OnComposedText(wxCommandEvent& event);
 
 protected:
+    ZRCola::translation_db m_t_db;      ///< Translation database
     bool m_progress;                    ///< Boolean flag to avoid recursive updates of composed and decomposed text controls
     ZRCola::mapping_vector m_mapping;   ///< Character index mapping vector between composed and decomposed text
     std::pair<long, long>
diff --git a/lib/stdex b/lib/stdex
index 32391e5..f5a2b04 160000
--- a/lib/stdex
+++ b/lib/stdex
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 32391e55a37dd6f56577f6b761fbe8589f858095
+Subproject commit f5a2b04caa11c846a5414d5c10934723e53aa84b