Extending onCue with your own or third-party Qbits

onCue is composed of small components called Qbits, which give access to a variety of different web and desktop services. It is possible to create new Qbits and include Qbits created by others.

The aQtive developers/academic pack contains information on how to extend onCue as well as other technical and theoretical information about onCue and aQtive technology. This page has links to some sections of the pack.

There are three ways to add to onCue - using Java Qbits (for experts only!), using XML Qbits or using aQtive wizards to build XML Qbits for you.

The easiest way is to use the aQtive wizards on the aQtive web site (available soon), or one of the XML Qbit 'recipes' below. Neither of these routes requires any programming skill, although some understanding of the web (HTML, URLs) is assumed.

recipes to extend onCue

• go to specific web pages on given keywords
     - including case-sensitive keywords and simple web page services
• add links to Internet searches and services
     - including using onCue built-in types
• aQtivate your own web site with onCue
     - including appropriate design of web forms
• have an aQtive Intranet!
     - including regular expressions and
multiple Qbit menu items

other pages about extending onCue

• aQtive web wizards
     - the easiest way to produce XML Qbits
• adding XML Qbits to onCue
     - how to install your own or third-party XML Qbits
• distributing your Qbits to others
     - information on distributing XML Qbits
• my XML Qbit doesn't work!
     - troubleshooting new XML Qbits
• XML Qbit specification
     - the full works!
• Java Qbits
     - interim description of how to create Qbits in Java