ImageCtl in Dialog System V3

Follow up to my question, my screen is initialized as;

       *

       * This CALLOUT enables Dynamic Window Sizing

       * and multiple resolution support

           CALLOUT-PARAMETER 1 CONFIG-FLAG $NULL ;

           CALLOUT-PARAMETER 2 CONFIG-VALUE $NULL ;

           MOVE 9 CONFIG-FLAG ;

           MOVE 3 CONFIG-VALUE ;

       *// MOVE 5 CONFIG-VALUE

           CALLOUT "dsrtcfg" 3 $PARMLIST ;
 

Additionally, I am executing the SET-PICTURE procedure as below. The RETC part is where I am changing the value of image (BMP/JPG) in IO-TEXT-BUFFER before invoking the CALLOUT.

SET-PICTURE

   MOVE 6 MENU-VAR

   RETC

   SET OBJECT-REFERENCE(1) PICTURE-01-OBJREF

   MOVE “SET-PICTURE” CALL-FUNCTION(1)

   CALLOUT “imageCtl” 0 $NULL
 

Have you tried to generate a 2nd control program for the 2nd image, i.e. imageCtl2.cbl?

Yes, actually I did that. I created a new “imageJpg.CBL” copied from imageCtl.CBL. I also change the value of TEXT-IO-BUFFER for it and in Dialog System. However used the same PICTURE-01-OBJREF, do I need to create another OBJ-REF (say PICTURE-02-OBJREF)?

Tried adding another OBJ-REF (and .CPB) and recompiled it, it returned “808-S Maximum number of data items exceeded.” so I remove RICHTEXT-01-OBJREF (and some unnecessary Dialog System variables) just to refresh the .CPB file but the error still exist. The linkage Data-Block variable is currently 130562Bytes. Does MERANT NetExpress V3.1 have compiler settings to be adjusted here?

Concerning the above error anyway. Transferred my MERANT NetExpress from Windows 7 to Windows 11. Been using the MERANT NetExpress v3.1 for my OOCobol online solutions  (COM+/browser-based systems) now. I am planning to share one of my product as an open-source type (via Github) to every Cobol programmers and everyone to understand how Cobol now progresses from the usual GUI to browser-based systems.

Net Express 3.1 has not been supported in over 25 years and had never been tested on anything above Windows XP, if I remember correctly.

The error you are receiving is a compiler error, not a Dialog System error.
This is referring to total number of data items including all of working-storage.

Docs for this state:

The compiled program contains more than 64,000 data items.