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Instead of using GUI to do a "open with", why not just use the Finder command "open using"?

Hey Jim,

Because I was responding to Mitchell, and I was fairly certain he wanted to change the file-association – and I was demonstrating how the menu activation sequence with System Events worked in El Capitan.

If I was just scripting the opening a file I would never use the Open-With menu in the Finder. It's clumsy and can take 1 or more seconds to populate (Windows does this better).

Ordinarily there's no benefit in having the Finder open using, because you can simply have the desired app open a file (or files) directly.

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tell application "Finder" to set finderSelectionList to selection as alias list

if length of finderSelectionList = 0 then error "No files were selected in the Finder!"

tell application "BBEdit"

activate

open finderSelectionList

end tell

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Take Care,

Chris

References:
	>GUI script a popup button (From: Mitchell L Model <email@hidden>)
	>Re: GUI script a popup button (From: Christopher Stone <email@hidden>)
	>Re: GUI script a popup button (From: Jim Underwood <email@hidden>)