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When you're drawing and you undo something, half the line strokes and picture disappears with it. I've only ever had this problem with Shi-Painter and now it's showing up for everything.

This has been a problem with both of Shi's paint applets for a while, and I don't know of any solution.  Animations could be to blame, since the animation code records each canvas change, so try painting without an animated canvas and see if that helps.

Also, since updating to Wacintaki a majority of the previous pictures won't show up as png, but jpg when you click on the thumbnails.

OekakiPoteto doesn't have "true" thumbnail support, it simply makes a non-scaled JPEG version of each image.  So, the updater has to do some guesswork when it converts from OP/Wax to Wacintaki as to what the "source" image is supposed to be.  It's supposed to use a PNG if it finds one, but otherwise uses JPEG.  If files have been uploaded, chances are they will have to be re-uploaded after the update.  The paint applets may also save a JPEG instead of a PNG, which can cause some issues.

Wax 5.6 is now pretty complete, and fully supports the new thumbnail system.  I'll be really happy when it's done.

BTW, before Wacintaki was based on OekakiPoteto, it was based on the original OekakiBBS script.  That script simply renamed all filetypes to have the "PNG" file extention, regardless of their actual image type!  That used to drive web browsers crazy! 

The wax version resized the applet automatically when the size changed, is this possible for wac?

I had to change that in Wacintaki because some web browsers (particularly Safari) will crash if Java is initialized with a size that doesn't match what is in the CSS/HTML, and using the resize gadget at the bottom of the page in OekakiPoteto can screw up the applet so it submits corrupt picture data, because of the way Java caches work (ever get that "Is picture restored" message)?  I could probably come up with something a bit more clever in the future.

Is there a reason why people don't use the "Resize applet to fill screen" button in Wacintaki?  I thought everyone would like that feature.

One of my members just reported that when they send a picture it shows up as a blank canvas. I checked, and it's true. I've never seen that happen anywhere, any ideas? D=
When they retouch it's still blank, but if they retouch someone else's artwork it shows up and they can send it in just fine.

This is ShiPainter, right?

My best guess is that the animation is corrupt.  ShiPainter has a VERY annoying problem where if you try to import a canvas and an animation at the same time, the picture will be totally screwed up.  As a result, Wacintaki/Wax imports only the animation if available, or only the canvas if there is no animation.  If the animation is corrupt, you'll get a blank canvas.  The only solution at the moment is to download and re-upload the image, which gets rid of the animation so the applet can retouch the actual picture.

I haven't gotten around to making a hack where an artist can choose which canvas to edit.  Unfortunately, it looks like both PaintBBS and ShiPainter are no longer being updated, so it's not likely that this bug will be fixed.

I just recently found out that when shi-painter errors, restarting your computer fixes it a lot. Even when the animation is errored and retouching deletes half the picture, restarting fixes that all up. =O

Thanks, I'll post that somewhere on the drawing pages for everyone to reference~

Please, Im going  to go crazy w/o That website!!

Why am I banned, AGAIN. I only have one account,  'You were banned for malicious use of the OekakiPoteto'
Please unban me I didn't do anything. 0.0