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The uiMimic Interface Architect allows home theater personal computer (HTPC) enthusiasts to dynamically build complex, flexible, and very powerful user interfaces using an easy-to-learn XML user interface design language. The uiMimic Interface Architect provides strong built-in multimedia features, such as:
a music module supporting:
visualizations
playlists (which can be saved, loaded, and
reorganized on the fly using a built-in playlist editor)
random shuffling
cover art
real-time monitoring of the library for changes/additions
track art
ID3 (metadata) tags
a picture module supporting:
image scaling
image rotation
image metadata
slideshows (which can be saved, loaded, and
reorganized on the fly using a built-in slideshow editor)
slideshow auto-advance
slideshow art
real-time monitoring of the library for changes/additions
a movie module featuring:
automatic image (.iso/.bin) mounting (via daemon-tools & daemon-script)
playback (via Zoom Player)
movie art
real-time monitoring of the library for changes/additions
an internet radio module supporting:
user-definable radio station list which allows on the fly adding, removing, and ordering of radio stations
access to any radio station compatible with Windows Media Player
a weather module showing:
a system monitoring module featuring:
a color coded graphical disk space monitor
an informative disk usage summary
the ability to exclude drives from the monitoring list to eliminate clutter or meaningless information
cpu usage monitor
a transparent network client module enabling access to your music, pictures, playlists, and slideshows from one or more remote computers
In addition to the standard front-end functionality described above, the uiMimic Interface Architect also provides:
a reliable and flexible multithreaded event-driven plugin architecture supporting plugin development with any .NET development tool
truly dynamic user interface creation
complete and accurate user interface scaling to scale any display to the current system resolution
high performance display rendering subsystem
a wide variety of user interface elements with which to
design your interface (buttons, text fields, active text fields,
keyboard accelerators, decorations, animations, media lists,
graphical preview windows, text preview windows, message boxes, text entry boxes, and others)
- full mouse and keyboard navigation
freedom to contribute to (or influence) the development of
the uiMimic Interface Architect
- ... and much more!
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