Name

choose application

Synopsis

application selection dialog

application selection dialog

Puts up a standard Choose Application dialog, listing all applications, with title "Choose Application" and default prompt "Select an application." The user can switch to browsing in a standard Open File dialog. You can specify the window title and prompt. Returns an application specifier, or optionally an alias, or a list if multiple selections are allowed.

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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