So, I was nicely on the way of making drawing. When all of a sudden I couldn't draw anymore, or merge/switch layers. So I figured, best to submit the drawing and try again later. But it wouldn't let me submit. It asked the question, are you sure you want to submit, so I said, yes. Then the next box appeared with the timerbeam 1/5th of loading the png bla bla. And it dissappeared again. Tried this several times, no luck. So finally I figured, what the heck, "refresh" the page, maybe it'll reload. But nay, It asks "would you like to restore the image, maybe you have accidentally left the previous page" and I say yes. Only to make Lascaux angry with me and saying "There was a JAVA error that may prevent you from continuing. The following information should be used to help diagnose the problem: "Java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space" The only following option for me is to click "ok" resulting in a message in the top left corner stating :
Lascaux Sketch V0.755 beta
error loading!

same thing happened to me yesterday, I couldn't merge my layers anymore, so I went to submit and it wouldn't submit... so I refreshed and still couldn't merge layers and so on... it finally did submit, 3 times(!) but by then it was a crap drawing so I deleted it anyway :P

You guys should real the "server move" thread down at bottom Marcello has some stuff about java..others had issues like barb..sounds like delete it all and put back the recommended one

I've been having the same problem :/

just out of curiosity, is this with particularly large canvas sizes?
how much memory do your computers have?

It is with the largest possible canvas size, (1024x768) so yeah, I also thought it must be my dino-pc, 2002 ac, memory, less than a memorystick :D. Even knowing a little about computers I'm still not sure where to look to say what the memory is.
Anyhoot, I did what Davinci suggested, had a java update because java said that I was not up to date... phoey. So started the drawing again, and now even further into the project, poof, internet suicide. Had to restart the computer, bye bye 2nd drawing. :S
On the bright side, I now am more than ever determined to finish this one, grrr.

Edit, I'm gonna finish this one, but in Photoshop, 3 times is too much if you ask me... :'(

550 x 412
Not sure how much memory, though. I'll find that out.

I am just wondering because both times when I went to load a pic done yesterday and it brought me to the second page about content, and I filled it then hit submit again, and the next screen should have been the redirect, but instead it logged me out! I thought I had lost the drawing. I had to log back in. Luckily though it was stored. So I then realized I didn't sign my pic so I went to edit and submit and it did the same thing it logged me out but it submitted first. Didn't happen with any other drawings just the one done yesterday?

Its not our computers; it is server side. I tested this by drawing and submitting on a computer on the following OS'es:

Windows 2k
Windows XP Pro
Ubuntu; Distributions 7.04, and 7.10
Debian
and for the hell of it, I even tried out my clunker Windows 98.

starzshine: if you log in with the cookie option that won't happen. it is a bug, though, the site shouldn't really do that. take comfort in the fact that if lascaux says your image was submitted successfully, it probably was.

saleuski: it's not server-side, it's client-side. any errors you get in the applet are related to the drawing programs which run on your own computer.

that aside, lascaux wasn't really optimized for multi-layer images at high resolution (in part because java doesn't allow any hard disk scratch disk space), so basically you're hitting limits in both your computer and how lascaux was designed. the more ram you have, the more lascaux will be able to handle, but it wasn't designed for super large pictures.

Aha, thought it must've been that, the big canvas drawing. Too bad Lascaux isn't a desktop drawing program. It's usually so userfriendly

it's not really so much related to it being applet vs desktop. it's more with how it was designed.

I figured that, I meant, like a program you can use like photoshop or so.

The images I submitted were one layer, and the canvas was less than 200 pixels wide and high.

I don't suppose that if we were having issues submitting something that a screenshot of it would help somehow? Because I'd rather not have to redo what I just drew. Maybe it was my drawing style that was the problem, which somehow brought this particular drawing to 2.6mb on a single layer after merging, 2nd version, after only 54min combined drawing time. I can only imagine what this third version I'm trying to submit must have brought it to.

oh and I'm making a 1028x768 drawing and I have 1gb of RAM for my computer...

if you take a screenshot I can manually put it on 2draw, but it's kind of a pain with the new site, and no promises on turnaround.

o rly? :3

Of course even that version of this drawing isn't finished yet. I was planning one last version with certain details and adjustments...

saleuski: you are getting an out of memory error with a picture smaller than 200x200?? how many layers do you have? how much ram on the computers in question? and other apps open?

redpanda: so you'll need to submit a blank revision and I'll see what I can do.

note that the 2.6MB is a lot smaller than the RAM lascaux uses (you can see that in the info box), because the image is compressed before it is sent to the server.

I remember the info box saying something about 80something point something mb out of 90 something something mb...

2draw's not being nice to me today... it's reeally slow and my pic wouldn't submit :
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v386/redgem72/untitled.jpg

I have attempted to submit 4 pics so far without success. I'm just not drawing for awhile. I'm tired of the pics not submitted. :o(

I tried uninstalling/installing Java again as well as the JT Tablet again....no luck so far with anything.

I'm just having problems with my unfinished drawings not loading even though the applet is coming up. It just comes up blank. Anyone know what is wrong?

I have a pic that is in "hidden" file but when I go to release it, all I get is the blank pic. The drawerboard shows the pic but there is nothing when I go to revise the pic. I had worked on it, two days ago, went to store it for later, and I lost the part I worked on. It was gone after trying to use the magic wand and then I hit the ctrl d as you directed me to to release the wand and my 2nd and third layers disappeared, went to the history, and all it said was freehand and nothing beyond it. Everything I did for the day was gone. Then I saved it, and now I can't get it back. what gives? what did I do wrong?