Animation causing Java to crash and I don't know why??

Question

I have spent all day scratching my head and recoding the splash screen to my application in an attempt to get my animation to run, but at 2.15 in the morning I have given up and admit I need help!
Below is my code and the error I get when I run it. Would be extremely greatful if someone could point me in the right direction as I just can't see what I'm doing wrong!!
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class Animation extends JPanel implements ActionListener
private ImageIcon iiImages[];
private int TotalImages;
private int CurrentImage;
private int AnimationDelay;
private Timer AnimationTimer;
public Animation()
this.setLayout( null );
this.setBounds( 5, 5, 700, 700 );
TotalImages = 38;
CurrentImage = 0;
AnimationDelay = 50;
initialiseArray();
public void initialiseArray()
iiImages = new ImageIcon[ TotalImages ];
for( int i = 0; i < iiImages.length; i ++ )
iiImages[ i ] = new ImageIcon( "C:/PANTS/Images/pants" + i + ".kdd" );
public void paintComponent( Graphics g )
super.paintComponent( g );
if ( iiImages[ CurrentImage ].getImageLoadStatus() == MediaTracker.COMPLETE )
iiImages[ CurrentImage ].paintIcon( this, g, 0, 0 );
CurrentImage = ( CurrentImage + 1 ) % TotalImages;
     if ( CurrentImage == TotalImages - 1 )
     stopAnimation();
public void startAnimation()
if ( AnimationTimer == null )
CurrentImage = 0;
AnimationTimer = new Timer( AnimationDelay, this );
AnimationTimer.start();
else if( ! AnimationTimer.isRunning() )
AnimationTimer.restart();
public void stopAnimation()
AnimationTimer.stop();
public void actionPerformed( ActionEvent e )
repaint();
Exception in thread "Image Fetcher 0" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
     at java.awt.image.DataBufferInt.<init>(DataBufferInt.java:41)
     at java.awt.image.Raster.createPackedRaster(Raster.java:458)
     at java.awt.image.DirectColorModel.createCompatibleWritableRaster(DirectColorModel.java:1015)
     at sun.awt.image.ImageRepresentation.createBufferedImage(ImageRepresentation.java:235)
     at sun.awt.image.ImageRepresentation.setPixels(ImageRepresentation.java:487)
     at sun.awt.image.ImageDecoder.setPixels(ImageDecoder.java:120)
     at sun.awt.image.JPEGImageDecoder.sendPixels(JPEGImageDecoder.java:97)
     at sun.awt.image.JPEGImageDecoder.readImage(Native Method)
     at sun.awt.image.JPEGImageDecoder.produceImage(JPEGImageDecoder.java:119)
     at sun.awt.image.InputStreamImageSource.doFetch(InputStreamImageSource.java:246)
     at sun.awt.image.ImageFetcher.fetchloop(ImageFetcher.java:172)
     at sun.awt.image.ImageFetcher.run(ImageFetcher.java:136)
Exception in thread "Image Fetcher 1" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
     at java.awt.image.DataBufferInt.<init>(DataBufferInt.java:41)
     at java.awt.image.Raster.createPackedRaster(Raster.java:458)
     at java.awt.image.DirectColorModel.createCompatibleWritableRaster(DirectColorModel.java:1015)
     at sun.awt.image.ImageRepresentation.createBufferedImage(ImageRepresentation.java:235)
     at sun.awt.image.ImageRepresentation.setPixels(ImageRepresentation.java:487)
     at sun.awt.image.ImageDecoder.setPixels(ImageDecoder.java:120)
     at sun.awt.image.JPEGImageDecoder.sendPixels(JPEGImageDecoder.java:97)
     at sun.awt.image.JPEGImageDecoder.readImage(Native Method)
     at sun.awt.image.JPEGImageDecoder.produceImage(JPEGImageDecoder.java:119)
     at sun.awt.image.InputStreamImageSource.doFetch(InputStreamImageSource.java:246)
     at sun.awt.image.ImageFetcher.fetchloop(ImageFetcher.java:172)
     at sun.awt.image.ImageFetcher.run(ImageFetcher.java:136)
Interactive Session Ended

Answer 1

Hi and thanks for the continued support,
I have looked at the page you linked to and run this command from the command prompt:
java -agentlib:hprof=heap=all,file=info.txt classname
Unfortunaltey (as I'm sure you have guessed) this is well out of my area of expertise and the resulting log is absoluty massive 6.5Meg in fact
Can you tell me which sections are relivant, or is there a way to upload the log for people to look at. Also does anyone who understands this command know if I have chosen the right switches?
The only other information I can give you is the class extends JPanel and is added to a JTabbedPane @ index 0. The animation sequence is called as soon s the app loads and again whenever the tab is selected by means of a changelistener which calls the class startAnimation.
Can any one test my code for themselves, I have found with 43 x 67kb JPEG images it crashes, but with 43 x 40kb images all is fine.
Either way, thanks for the help thus far, but without detailed instructions and more support form you guys, my knowlege is not such that I can determine the solution from the information outputted by the command above,
Kris