APS (Aguta Pad Submitter) A tool for automatic registration of PAD files in shareware catalogues. Multithreaded execution provides high speed of form submission. The application is shipped with the largest database of PAD catalogues (more than 300 URLs) and allows users to add their own URL to the database. The tool is designed for Shareware applications developers.

Primary user interface controls:
- Main Menu
- Main Toolbar
- Stats Panel
- Submission report panel
- Browser

QUICK START

To start submission, follow the procedure below:

• Configure submission parameters on "Settings" dialog box
• Perform PAD catalogues database update
• Click "Start" button in the program main menu or in the Main Toolbar

MAIN MENU

Menu "File"

This menu contains commands to control submission process.

- Start submission
- Pause submission (can be used to pause the submission process temporarily. To continue with submission, click "Start submission")
- Stop submission (Terminates submission process. The operation is undoable, so the submission cannot be continued. After the submission is terminated, it can be only restarted from the beginning)

Menu "Configuration"

- Servers (opens "Servers" dialog box)
- Categories (opens "Categories" dialog box)
- Update servers database (updates the database from AGUTA update server)
- Settings (opens "Settings" dialog box)

MAIN TOOLBAR

Commands to control submission process.
- Start submission
- Pause submission (can be used to pause the submission process temporarily. To continue with submission, click "Start submission")
- Stop submission (Terminates submission process. The operation is undoable, so the submission cannot be continued. After the submission is terminated, it can be only restarted from the beginning)

SERVERS

To add catalogue to the database manually, click "Add" button. The Add catalogue dialog box will be opened.

• Enter form handling URL into the "Script URL" field. To find out this URL address analyze the HTML source of the catalogue page containing PAD file submit form.
  <FORM action="[http://scripturl....]">
• Enter the data submit method used into "Request type" field
  <FORM method="GET" action="[http://scripturl....]">
• PAD variable - the name of the variable containing PAD file name
  <INPUT type="text" name="padurl">
• Category variable - the name of the variable containing category name
  <SELECT name="cat">......</select>
• E-mail variable - the name of the variable containing E-mail
  <INPUT type="text" name="email">
• Success substring - text on the submit result page which can be used by the application to determine that post was successful

To edit catalogue in the database click "Modify" button. The catalogue edit dialogue is equivalent to add dialogue. Enter the changes you need and click "OK" . To delete catalogue for the database select the required line in the list and click "Delete" button.

CATEGORIES

The categories default database provided with the application contains the list of most frequent categories used in most of the PAD catalogues. However, in some situations, adding some custom categories for posting may be necessary. To add custom category to the database use "Add" button.

On Add category dialog box enter the name of the new position? and click "OK". Use "Modify" and "Delete" button to edit and delete categosries...

SETTINGS

General submission settings are configured in the "Settings" dialog box

PAD URL - enter your PAD file URL (http:// prefix is required)
Autor e-mail: Application author email specified in PAD file
Categories - select category specified in the PAD file from the category list
Logfile: path to log file on the local frive
Submission delay (sec): delay between submits in automatic submission mode
View HTML when submitting - allows displaying page content in the application integrated browser
Manual Mode - when enabled, requests confirmation every time before moving to the next catalogue