AppleScript choose file or folder

Question

can I use AppleScript to choose either file or folder in one time?

Now I could use

tell application \"SystemUIServer\" to return POSIX path of (choo         


        

Answer 1

Firstly, you don't need a tell for that.

POSIX path of (choose file)

Secondly, it is not clear why you need this. Do you mean you want to select a file and it's folder? That's not how you do it; you select the file then parse the file path for the containing folder or use one of the many methods to do that, like

set f to (choose file)
set posixF to POSIX path of f
tell application "Finder" to set filesDir to container of f as alias as text
set posixDir to POSIX path of filesDir

{f, posixF, filesDir, posixDir}

If you want to be able to select multiple folders and files at the same time, I don't think there is a "pure applescript" way to do this (aside from using a drag-drop aware script application).