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Welcome to the Theater Effect Panel Wiki. I am a professional embedded C software developer, that plays theater as a hobby. Because I didn't find an easy to use sound effect playing program I tried to create one. Although Java is not my 'native' programming language I did my best ;-). You can also visit my other projects at github:
SBCBox - Single Board Computer Box
Github Repository

Theater Effect Panel

Theater EffectPanel searches in the current directory for *.mp3-, *.wav-, or *.start.bat-Files and creates for each file a button-panel in its interface. Pressing the Button plays the wav- and mp3-Files and executes the batch files. With the help of a scripting feature you can even play
pictures and videos on a beamer i.e. remotely over a network with the help of Raspberry Pi.

System requirements

A Java 8 compatible environment.
Tested with Orace JRE 8 on a Windows PC
The newest versions of Theater Effect Panel need JavaFX. In newer Java-Versions JavaFX is not included anymore. Older versions of EffectPanel just use Swing and can be run on all Java Versions.
Luckily Azul offers an OpenJDK build with integrated JavaFX for all Platforms, even a MSI-Installer for Windows:
Azul Zulu OpenJDK

Create a new project

• Create a new directory
• Copy EffectPanel0.7.jar in the directory
• Copy mp3- and wav-files in directory
  Optionally copy icon.png in directory
• Start EffectPanel0.7.jar
  Normally by double-click
  Or Command Line: java -jar EffectPanel0.7.jar
  Or use file EffectPanelStart.bat
• Have Fun