Fill layer with color

pse13 I am trying to fill layer. The layer has a small rectangle on it and nothing else. When I fill layer, it fills the entire canvas, not just the rectangle! This used to work!

Go to File>new>blank file. Enter w, h, and resolution, & background color. This will be the canvas.
Set up the Rectangular marquee tool to fixed size, enter w & h dimensions for the rectangle
Use the Paint-bucket tool to fill the rectangle with color of choice as determined by the foreground color chip.

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Now, I thought on mac that to fill with foreground color you hit Apple+Delete and to fill with background you hit Option+Delete
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Keyboard here is: http://pckeyboard.com/page/UKBD/UB40P4A
Any suggestions why my keyboard shortcut for filling a layer with color might be reversed?
Thanks in advance,
CC

eartho wrote:
option-delete is, and always has been, fill with foreground.
a 1 second google search would have informed you of this.
Thanks for the reply.
I did do a Google and I got this:
http://blog.coghillcartooning.com/84/tip-keyboard-shortcut-to-fill-a-photoshop-layer-or-se lection-with-the-background-or-foreground-color/
And from that I got the option-delete was background, and apple-delete was foreground.
Hence my confusion...
Thanks for the reply, I guess I should check 2-3 sites each time I google for keyboard shortcuts for PS.
CC

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Hello, please help me to find the answer.I have an image (doesn't matter
what format it is. I can use most suitable, even export from Photoshop can be used).
I would like to fill it with color. Is it possible to do it using JavaFX?
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Edited by: Holod on 05.10.2009 9:37

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File is situated in the same package with fx file. I think it doesn't take too much time to load img.
I know dimensions of image, but I would like to work with abstract image, it's not good to hardcode dimensions or ask user about image dimensions. User is not a professional and he doesn't have to know such dull things :)
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