Name
choose application — application selection dialog
Description
Puts up a standard Choose Application dialog. The user can choose from a list of all applications, or can switch to browsing in a standard Open File dialog. Returns an application specifier, or an alias if requested; or a list of either, if multiple selections are allowed. If the user cancels, an error is thrown (-128: “User canceled.”)
Example
set theApp to choose application as alias tell application "Finder" set isScriptable to has scripting terminology of theApp end tell if isScriptable then display dialog "It's scriptable!"
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