Automation: Howto swap two areas in one Alpha Channel

Dear Forum members,
another question. I have an Image with some alpha channels. In my automation plugin i need to exchange two areas in one alpha channel. At the moment i'm trying to cut one area, move the other area to the place of the first and then paste the first area at the location of the second one. Is this the optimum way of doing? Or is there something smarter / faster ?
Regards, Christof

For the moment (because i'm too lazy to extend my hidden plugin right now) i've realized it from the automation plugin without any additional channels: Cut area 1, move area 2 to area 1, paste area 1 at the position of area 2. This should also be pretty fast, because Photoshop is doing all the work for me.

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http://www.imagemagick.org/script/command-line-options.php#alpha
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/masking/#remove
http://www.imagemagick.org/index.php
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http://www.imagemagick.org/script/command-line-options.php
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