How to open a file using Applescript

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Seems to be a very simple question, but i cannot find the answer in the many many documentation that is around on Applescript.

I have a non-scriptable application for which i want to open a file using the File Open dialog in the application. This is what i came up with so far:

tell application "CubicSDR"
    activate
end tell

tell application "System Events" to tell process "CubicSDR"
    set position of window 2 to {-1920, -296}
    set size of window 2 to {1635, 500}
    click menu item "Open Session" of menu "File" of menu bar 1
    ......
end tell

Then i have tried to select a file, open a file, click a file, nothing seems to work.
This can not be as hard as it seems considering that this is such a common operation.
Does anybody have a code sample i can work off?

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Here you go:

tell application "Mail" to open "Library:Desktop Pictures:Small Ripples graphite.png"

Replace "Mail" and the file with the app and file you want to open your file with, respectively.

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I must say that your question is rather elaborate and takes quite some reading and thinking ...

But here is a version of your last but one applescript that just MIGHT work a little better for you:

activate application "Fiji"
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Fiji"
    click menu item "Quit" of menu of menu bar item "File" of menu bar 1
end tell

1) What you called "menu finder" actually is menu bar item "File"

2) Menu bars with Apple (normally) don't belong to "window 1" (but to applications). You'd have to get a specific window to the front in order to process just that one.
But anyway, "Quitting" will close all of your windows ...

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