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Editing
Preferences Help
When
you single-click on the aQtive icon in the onCue window,
you'll see the option More.... Select this to open
the Preferences dialogue box, where you can adjust the appearance
and behaviour of onCue.
Pressing F1 or clicking Help at the bottom of the
Preferences window will open this Help page. You can use
the Feedback button to contact us - either about
things you would like to see in future releases of onCue,
or if you have any comments or queries about onCue or onCue
Preferences that are not covered in this documentation.
The
Apply button applies the changes you make in the
Preferences window to onCue.
Related
pages:
Qbits
| appearance | schemes
| advanced | about
Preferences
options
Qbits
This page lets you choose which Qbits onCue displays when
it recognises something you copy. A description of each
Qbit is provided when you hover the mouse cursor over each
icon. Click the checkbox to turn a Qbit on or off, then
click Apply to activate the changes. Qbits that are
not checked will not be suggested by onCue. Use this to
disable Qbits that aren't relevant to you - you can enable
them again at any time.
Appearance
Here you can change the layout of the onCue window, and
some more advanced settings.
Change
layout
- set the window size (in rows and columns). The
number can range from 1 to the maximum that will fit on
the screen.
- specify the icon position. There are two ways
to do this
- click in the square that represents the icon position
you want
- type the row and column numbers in the fields below
Icon:
Positive numbers offset from the top left and negative
numbers from the bottom right.
Fading
speed
- you can change the speed at which the Qbit icons fade
in and out of the onCue window.
- there are four settings:
- regular is the default setting
- fast - the icons appear more quickly but
less smoothly
- instant - icons appear and disappear without
fading
- custom allows you to make your own settings
as described in the next section.
Advanced
settings
- change the Fading options to alter the way in
which icons fade in and out of view (changes do not take
effect until the next time you start onCue)
- Delay
this value defines the time delay (in milliseconds)
between each frame. A smaller number will make the
icons fade more rapidly, but consume more memory.
The default value is 50 milliseconds.
- Steps
this value defines the number of frames used to fade
the icons in and out.The default is 25. Smaller numbers
will make the icons appear more quickly, but less
smoothly. The minimum is 1 (no fading).
- Threshold
this value specifies how many frames away from fading
out completely the icons should stop at when onCue
suggests the same service following a change to the
copied information. The minimum is 0 (icons fade out
completely before being re-suggested). The maximum
is the current Steps value. The default value
is 11, which means the icon fades just over halfway
before reappearing.
- set the Window options
- always on top
by default, the onCue window floats above anything
else on the screen. You can uncheck this option.
- frame
by default, the window does not display a standard
window frame, but you may want to enable this option,
for example to access onCue from the Windows taskbar.
You should check this option if you uncheck always
on top, so that you can access the onCue window
from the taskbar if it disappears beneath other open
windows.
Qbits
| appearance | schemes
| advanced | about
Schemes
You can specify a colour scheme for onCue, including a background
image if you want one. Schemes you create can be saved with
a particular name to use again later. We are working on
improving the schemes interface in future releases.
To
change the colour scheme:
- choose colours
- the drop-down menu lets you specify colours for
the different elements of the onCue window, background,
border, menu, etc. Select an element from this menu,
then
- click on the colour button to open the colour selection
window
- colour selection
- choose a colour in the left-hand box in the
colour selection window
- specify brightness with the vertical slider
- changes are shown in the colour box on the right,
and as HSB values.
- click OK to confirm the colour choice
and Apply to the onCue window
- if you also want to give the onCue window a background
image, use the Browse... button to open an image file
from your hard disk. Currently we only support two file
formats for the background image: GIF and JPEG. There
are 3 placement options:
- You can see the effect of each of these by selecting
it and clicking Apply.
If
you want to save different colour schemes, perhaps because
you work on a shared computer, click Save as... and
type a name for the scheme. You will then be able to select
it in the Schemes menu and apply it to onCue by clicking
Apply. Note: the name showing in the menu-box
is not necessarily the current colour scheme for onCue,
unless your last action was to select and apply a saved
scheme.
At
the moment, if you save with the same name as an existing
scheme, the earlier scheme will be overwritten without warning
you. When you press the delete button, the scheme indicated
in the Scheme box will be deleted and you will not be able
to recover it.
Qbits
| appearance | schemes
| advanced | about
Advanced
There are 3 options in the advanced preferences:
- Check for new version
onCue will periodically access the aQtive website when
you are connected to the Internet and, if you have the
update Qbit enabled (see the Icon
Guide, will tell you when an updated version is available.
We are continually adding new services to onCue, so it's
a good idea to keep this option checked so that you can
take advantage of them.
- Send registration details
If you opted not to register during install, this option
will be unselected. We strongly encourage you to register
onCue if you continue to use it. When you are ready to
register, check the box, and enter your details in the
About
preferences section. The next time you use an onCue Internet
service, onCue will send your registration information
to aQtive. This is a one-off procedure.
- Qbit XML-Path
This tells the system where to find its list of Qbits.
the default is lib/qbits.xml (path relative to the aQtive
directory). You should not normally need to change
this value. If you write Qbits of your own (see Extend
onCue) you will need to know this path in order to
put them in the right place.
Qbits
| appearance | schemes
| advanced | about
About
This is where you should enter your registration details
if you have not already registered onCue. See Advanced
for more about registering. You'll also find the version
number of this copy of onCue here.
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