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Using facilities from Erik Van Bilsen (GitHub) to create a ribbon-style menu, and carefully following the instructions for incorporating a simple ribbon menu into a new VCL form application in Delphi 10.1, I run into an OLE exception (unspecified) when running my app. The error happens at the line indicated below:

procedure TUIRibbon.Load();
Ribbon resource "%s": %s';
var
  Inst: THandle;
  lForm: TCustomForm;
begin
  if (Available) and (inherited Visible) and not (FLoaded) then
  begin
    // Load mapper for mapping between commands and VCL actions
    fRibbonMapper := TRibbonMarkupElementList.LookupListByResourceName(FResourceName);
    if (FResourceInstance = 0) then
      Inst := HInstance
    else
      Inst := FResourceInstance;
    try
      // OLE Exception.  Unspecified error happens here: 
      FFramework.LoadUI(Inst, PChar(FResourceName + '_RIBBON')); //Note:                       FResourceName = 'APPLICATION' here.   
      FLoaded := True;
      if Assigned(FOnLoaded) then
        FOnLoaded(Self);
      if roAutoPreserveState in Options then

Any suggestions?

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  • Are you using the latest version from https://github.com/TurboPack/RibbonFramework? It appears that Erik has not been involved recently and there are numerous commits at the new repository, along with a pretty good tutorial in the wiki. – Jon Robertson Jul 20 '16 at 20:49
  • I took a look at that website. Looks like I would need to get several source files and recompile. I've decided to use a simpler approach. I'm building a decent ribbon style menu piece by piece using familiar controls. After all, I only need buttons and drop-down combos, none of the fancier controls like those used in Word or Excel. – Leonard Yates Jul 21 '16 at 20:25

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