PadSubmit 1.1 (05/04/2008)
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What's new?
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- Removed the not working sites from the sites.ini file
- Included a (very minimal) sites.ini modifier tool so you can add your own pad sites.

What is it?
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PadSubmit is an automated pad submitting program. It will submit your pad files to freeware/shareware
websites. You can view the submitting  results afterwards. It is mainly used by programmers that want to
distribute their programs around using a simple system.

How do i use it?
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You open the program, specify your connection method and then enter your pad file url for example 
http://www.willemssoft.be/pad/padsubmit.xml. Once you have done this all you have to do is press the submit
button and the program will start the submitting proces. After the program has finished submitting you
can view the results by selecting a site and pressing the "view selected result" button. (or you check out
the html files in the "results" folder)
The program will detect if a submission was succesfull, meaning that the submitted program from the pad file
is either updated or listed as a new program, or if it has failed, that there wasn't a catergory found in the
pad file that matches the ones on the pad site, there was a connection problem, or the submission timed out.
There's also an option to start from a certain site number in case you want to resume from a certain point.
Timeout is used to specify how many seconds the application waits before it submits another program, this is
only used to speed up the submission of pad urls that no longer work.
Threads is used to specify how many pad files you want to submit in one time. Please note that depending on
the website's download speed and internet connection you might have to increase the timeout value.
With me 30 seconds is still sufficient with 10 threads but that doesn't mean it will be with you.

What are Pad files?
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A Pad file is basically an xml file that describes your program and using the pad file you can then submit
this information to multiple freeware shareware software sites. It's used so that you only have to enter
your program details once and for ease of updating your programs information on websites.
More information about pad files can be found here : http://www.asp-shareware.org/pad/

How do i create a pad file?
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You don't have to manually create an xml file for your program, there exist freeware programs for creating them
The one that i suggest on using is padgen availible here : http://www.padgen.org/

if you like this program very much how can u help me?
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There are 3 ways to help,
1) visit one of my sponsors on my website
2) make a small donatation using paypal to joyrider3774@hotmail.com or using the donate button inside the program
3) placing a link to http://www.willemssoft.be on your website

Future releases?
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Implement an automated sites.ini updater.

Notes
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PadSubmit is freeware and free to use for anyone. No money may be asked for the program itself. 

if you just started your padkit website, don't forget to send me your website url so i can add
it to the program. 

Created By Willems Davy
willems.davy@willemssoft.be
Http://www.willemssoft.be
http://software.willemssoft.be


