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JChords
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JChords is a lightweight, guitar chord and tunings library. It is written in Java (based on the openJDK standard).

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Installation
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This program will run with either the official Oracle Java binary, or the OpenJDK platform binary.

Jchords.jar will execute in any directory or location in your filesystem, as long as javaw.exe is linked to your $PATH variable it should run simply by double clicking it.
If javaw.exe is not in your $PATH variable you will need to add it before you can run this program, the official Java installation for Windows and MacOS will automatically add it to your path, although it may not set jar file association. To do that right click on JChords.jar and select open with -> Java Platform Binary, if it is not in the menu you will have to use the open with menu to browse to javaw.exe's location and open it using that. Once it is set it will remain so permanently until you unset it.

JChords will run out of the box on every Linux distribution that contains at least Java 7, if you are running Java 6 you will need to update, or else this program will not function properly.

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Notes
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This program is licensed under the offcial OSI approved Apache License 2.0.
You are free to modify and redistribute any portion of this program, so long as you adhere to the guidelines set forth by the Apache 2.0 License.

Any questions or comments regarding this project should be directed to the projects SourceForge page at http://wwwsourceforge.net/p/jchords/ticket.