Adding scripts to Actions

Question

I am involved in a lot of works of handling thousands of photos (digital/scanned, B/W as well as color, of different ages: I have to treat images from '30s) and in my workflow (Bridge-Camera Raw-PSHP) I have a lot of repetitive actions to take.
One very delicate action is saving, in different moments of the workflow, images with different filenames extensions (having the same root of the initial image filename) in different directories; most of the times, this occurs at the end of an Action that I have recorded for specific job.
I would like to have a "script" that automates the renaming of the image file and writes it in the right directory, instead of typing the right extension and selecting the right directory by hand: beyond the waste of time, the real problem is that an error will have devastating effects.
I have tried to accomplish this with the standard PSHP Action facilities, but I haven't been able to.
I have an acceptable knowledge of Visual Basic, while I don't know anything about Scripting, and therefore the best thing would be writing imyself in VBA a function that handles the different situations for saving images with the right filename extensions in the right directory, producing a .exe that I would activate (it should be possible, but how ?) at the end of diffrent Actions: where do I get the filename of the image and the directory where it comes from ?
BTW, I have the Design Premium Creative Suite 3 in an XP SP3 always updated.
Great thanks to the ones that can help me: I need it.
Mauro (Italy)

Answer 1

As a start could you please try this script.
Open  "Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit 2" (This is installed with Photoshop) and should be available in Start Programs.
Copy and paste this code into an ExtendScript window.
Then File- Save to C:/Program Files/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop CS3/Presets/Scripts folder
Close Photoshop if open then re-open Photoshop
Load a test picture for Definitive then run the script and see if it does what you require.
To run the script File - Scripts and select the script.
If it does you can add the script to the end of your action by selecting  "Inset Ment Item" in the action palette and File - Scripts and select the script.
#target photoshop
function main(){
if(!documents.length){
alert("You do not have a document open!");
return;
var newPath = Folder(decodeURI(activeDocument.path) +"/" +"Definitive"); //This is the target folder
if(!newPath.exists){
var result = Window.confirm (decodeURI(newPath) +"\nDoes Not Exist\nWould you like me to create it?", true, "Folder does Not Exist");
if(!result) return;
newPath.create();
var newName = decodeURI(activeDocument.name).match(/(.*)\.[^\.]+$/)[1];
newName = newName +"-DEF.tif"; //The suffix with tiff format
var saveFile = File(decodeURI(newPath)+"/"+newName);
if(saveFile.exists){
var result = Window.confirm("This File Exits!\nWould You Like It Overwritten?", true, "File Exists");
if(!result) return;
saveFile.remove();
SaveTIFF(saveFile);
main();
function SaveTIFF(saveFile){
tiffSaveOptions = new TiffSaveOptions();
tiffSaveOptions.embedColorProfile = true;
tiffSaveOptions.alphaChannels = true;
tiffSaveOptions.imageCompression = TIFFEncoding.TIFFLZW;
activeDocument.saveAs(saveFile, tiffSaveOptions, true, Extension.LOWERCASE);