Help needed with using Patterns with Actions

New to the site and I'm wondering if anyone could give me a little assistance!
I have jpegs of a LOT of fabric swatches that are to be inserted into a PSD file of a living room as the window blinds and this needs to be achieved via an Action.
The way they are intended to work is:
• the fabric swatch is opened
• a pattern is generated from the swatch
• a PSD file is opened
• the relevant layer is selected and a pattern overlay is chosen which makes the swatch appear as if it is used on the blinds
All well and good. BUT of course when I record the action and create the pattern from one swatch, whenever I run the action with a DIFFERENT swatch it still uses the swatch that was used when I recorded it!
For example I create the action with olive_swatch.jpeg and it works a charm. But when I open teal_swatch.jpeg it still chooses olive.swatch.jpeg when I apply the pattern to the layer.
Anyone got any ideas?
Dave

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A Class that maintains Information about a book
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Hello
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      • save this as compiled script and attached it to folder A; and
      • drag-n-drop target files into A and it will move them in folder B and rename them as intended.
      (Use option-drag-n-drop (i.e. copy, not move) to keep the original file or it will be moved and renamed.)
    2) As droplet,
      • save this as application (or application bundle) in folder A; and
      • drag-n-drop target files onto the droplet and it will duplicate them to folder B and rename them as intended.
      (Exception. If target files are in A, they will be moved, not copied, to folder B.)
on adding folder items to da after receiving aa
main(da, aa)
end adding folder items to
on open aa
tell application "Finder" to set da to container of (path to me) as alias
main(da, aa)
end open
on main(ra, aa)
  alias ra : root folder
  list aa : items to be processed
script o
property destinationFolderName : "Renamed items"
property numberFormat : "000" -- seq. number will be 001, 002, etc (if n > 999, use n as is)
property nlen : count numberFormat
property nmax : (10 ^ nlen - 1) as integer
property xx : {}
property astid : a reference to AppleScript's text item delimiters
property astid0 : astid's contents
property NL : return
property errs1 : NL & NL & "This item will be left as is in: " & NL & NL
property errs2 : NL & NL & "This item will be left as: " & NL & NL
property btt1 : {"OK"}
on decomp(s)
  string s : name string to decompose
  return list : {name stem, sequential number string, name extension}
  e.g. Given s : result
    "name1.001.jpg" : {"name1", "001", "jpg"}
    "name1.jpg" : {"name1", {}, "jpg"} -- [*]
    "name1" : {"name1", {}, {}}
    "name1..jpg" : {"name1", "", "jpg"} -- [*]
    "name1.name2.001.jpg" : {"name1.name2", "001", "jpg"}
    "name1.name2.jpg" : {"name1.name2", {}, "jpg"}
  [*] Note different meanings of {} and "" in result list
local n, p, q, r
try
if s = "" then return {{}, {}, {}}
set astid's contents to {"."}
set s to s's text items
tell s to set {n, r} to {reverse's rest's reverse, item -1}
if n = {} then set {n, r} to {s, {}}
tell n to set {p, q} to {reverse's rest's reverse, item -1}
if p = {} then set {p, q} to {n, {}}
try
q as number
set p to "" & p
on error
set {p, q} to {"" & (p & q), {}}
end try
set astid's contents to astid0
on error errs number errn
set astid's contents to astid0
error "decomp():" & errs number errn
end try
return {p, q, r}
end decomp
on nextname(n)
  string n : source name
  property xx : names in pool
  property numberFormat, nlen, nmax: number format string, its length, max value respectively
  return string : new name with next sequential number
  e.g.
    Provided that n = "name1.jpg" and the name that has max seq. number
     with the same stem and extension as n in destination folder is "name1.005.jpg",
     resurt = "name1.006.jpg"
local p, q, r, a, b, c, b1
set {p, q, r} to decomp(n)
if r = {} then set r to "_" -- give dummy extension if none (to handle it correctly)
set b1 to 0
repeat with x in my xx
set x to x's contents
if x starts with p then
set {a, b, c} to decomp(x)
if {a, c} = {p, r} then
set b to 0 + b
if b > b1 then set b1 to b
end if
end if
end repeat
set b1 to b1 + 1
if b1 > nmax then
return p & "." & b1 & "." & r
else
return p & "." & (numberFormat & b1)'s text -nlen thru -1 & "." & r
end if
end nextname
try
set da to (ra as Unicode text) & destinationFolderName & ":" as alias
on error -- da not present
tell application "Finder" to ¬
set da to (make new folder at ra with properties {name:destinationFolderName}) as alias
end try
--set my xx to list folder da without invisibles -- this is faster but 'list folder' is deprecated in AS2.0.
tell application "Finder" to set my xx to name of items of da as vector -- [1]
  [1] Finder (at least under OS9) returns [] (empty linked list) when returning empty list.
  This will cause error -10006 in 'set end of my xx to ...' statement, for linked list does not support it.
  The explicit 'as vector' will handle this case.
repeat with a in aa
set a to a's contents
--set n to (info for a)'s name -- this is faster but 'info for' is deprecated under OSX10.5
tell application "Finder" to set n to a's name
if n = destinationFolderName then -- ignore it
else
set {n1, _step} to {nextname(n), 0}
tell application "Finder"
set sa to a's container as alias
-- move or duplicate
try
if sa = ra then
(* when run as Folder Action (or as droplet with items in ra) *)
set a1 to (move a to da) as alias
else
(* when run as droplet with items outside ra *)
set a1 to (duplicate a to da) as alias
end if
set _step to 1
on error errs number errn
(* name conflict, etc *)
display dialog errs & " " & errn & errs1 & sa buttons btt1 ¬
default button 1 with icon 2 giving up after 15
end try
-- rename
try
if _step = 1 then set {a1's name, _step} to {n1, 2}
on error errs number errn
(* name conflict, invalid name, etc; not probable but possible *)
display dialog errs & " " & errn & errs2 & a1 buttons btt1 ¬
default button 1 with icon 2 giving up after 15
end try
end tell
if _step = 2 then set end of my xx to n1
end if
end repeat
end script
tell o to run
end main
--END OF SCRIPT
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