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What is MacPAD? To use a MacPAD file, all you have to do is fill out a few simple fields in the MacPAD application in the MacPAD SDK and then upload it to your webserver. From there, you would then submit the link to your MacPAD file once to all of the websites which support MacPAD. From then on, when you update your application, you would update your MacPAD file upload it to your webserver again and then all of the websites you submitted the link to would automatically update as you change your application. Pretty spiffy! Now the only downside is that at the moment there's only one site, MacShareware.net, supporting the MacPAD format, but this is believed to change over time.
However, don't be discouraged by this because there is a use beyond the simply amazing automation that it offers. You can also you use the MacPAD format and the example code in one of four languages (C, PHP, REALbasic, and Cocoa) to do your own version-checking and inform the user when your application is updated by checking whenever your application is opened. Design
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The last step is to handle the result of the check via the VersionSocket's Finished event.
(Click on the code for a full size image) All that this code does is handle the different result code values (0-5) and display the appropriate information in the information field. There are a few other methods in the VersionSocket that can be used to retrieve useful information. They include:
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