The computer programs most users interact with daily are driven by a graphical user interface (GUI). However, many scientific applications are used with a command line interface (CLI) for the ease of development and increased flexibility this mode provides. Scientific application developers would benefit from being able to provide a GUI easily for their CLI programs, thus retaining the advantages of both modes of interaction. GuiLiner is a generic, extensible and flexible front-end designed to ``host'' a wide variety of data analysis or simulation programs. Scientific application developers who produce a correctly formatted XML file describing their program's options and some of its documentation can immediately use GuiLiner to produce a carefully implemented GUI for their analysis or simulation programs.
@article{arxiv.0806.0314,
title = {GuiLiner: A Configurable and Extensible Graphical User Interface for Scientific Analysis and Simulation Software},
author = {N. C. Manoukis and E. C. Anderson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.0314},
year = {2008}
}
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4 pages; for the current version of this software, please visit http://guiliner.sourceforge.net/