Uiml.net
Introduction
Uiml.net is a free software UIML renderer. Prof. Dr Kris Luyten started the project in 2003. Uiml.net is written in C# and can render a UIML description using different widget sets and platforms. Supported toolkits include System.Windows.Forms, System.Windows.Forms on the Compact.NET framework and Gtk#.
I started working on Uiml.net when I did an internship at EDM in July, 2004. I ported Uiml.net to Windows (it used to run only on Linux with Mono) and implemented the System.Windows.Forms backend for the desktop and for Windows Mobile devices. During my Master's thesis I extended Uiml.net with support for layout constraints using the Cassowary.net constraint solver. I have guided two Bachelor's theses (Jan Meskens and Ingo Berben) and four Master's theses (Jan Meskens, Rob Van Roey, Neal Robben and Tijl Lathouwers) on improving the software.
People
A number of people have been involved with Uiml.net. Here is a list of colleagues that have worked on Uiml.net:
- Prof. Dr Kris Luyten
- Kristof Thys
- Dr Jan Meskens
Students that have extended the renderer:
- Ingo Berben
- Rob Van Roey
- Neal Robben
- Tijl Lathouwers
Code
The code for Uiml.net is available on Github.
Related Publications
| Jan Meskens, Jo Vermeulen, Kris Luyten and Karin Coninx. Gummy for Multi-Platform User Interface Designs: Shape me, Multiply me, Fix me, Use me. In Proc. of AVI '08. pp. 233-240. [~27% acceptance; 117 submissions] |
| Jo Vermeulen, Yves Vandriessche, Tim Clerckx, Kris Luyten and Karin Coninx. Service-interaction Descriptions: Augmenting Services with User Interface Models. In Proc. of EIS '07. pp. 447-464. [~41% acceptance; 91 submissions] |
| Kris Luyten, Kristof Thys, Jo Vermeulen and Karin Coninx. A Generic Approach for Multi-Device User Interface Rendering with UIML. In Computer-Aided Design of User Interfaces V, Proc. of CADUI '06. pp. 175-182. |