Is This Possible To Do?

Question

Lets say I'm writing an Action that instructs the user at a certain point to select a foreground color they intend to use.  Later in this action I'd like the action to select the user selected "foreground color" and fill a selection, channel, etc., with the chosen foreground color.  I've tried countless things and can't get this to work other than have the action fill a selection with a specific RGB value.  What I need to incorporate is a command to simply "select current foreground color" and fill the selection with the correct RGB value indicated by the user.  Any clues?

Answer 1

If your just starting to learn Photoshop Scripting start by reading the documentation that ships with Phitoshop do not start with the ScriptListener Plugin like actions that that produces Step, Step, Step no logic. If you want to prompt the user to enter a color you need to add the logic using a supported script language like javascript. Script documentation ships with Photoshop for example if you are a Windows CS5 read these:
"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS5\Scripting\Documents\Photoshop CS5 Scripting Guide.pdf"
"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS5\Scripting\Documents\Photoshop CS5 JavaScript Ref.pdf"
There are some good tutorials on the web I started with these:
http://morris-photographics.com/photoshop/tutorials/scripting1.html
http://morris-photographics.com/photoshop/tutorials/scripting2.html
There is this forums and others over at http://www.ps-scripts.com/bb/
You can do what you want in an action by adding an action Stop like I described in my previous append.
I also have a free download on the Web about crafting actions it contains a dozen scripts to be used within Actions.
http://www.mouseprints.net/old/dpr/JJMacksCraftingActions.zip
Contains:
Action Actions Palette Tips.txt
Action Creation Guidelines.txt
Action Dealing with Image Size.txt
Action Enhanced via Scripted Photoshop Functions.txt
CraftedActions.atn Sample Action set includes an example Watermarking action http://www.mouseprints.net/old/dpr/WM900x600.jpg
Sample Actions.txt Photoshop CraftedActions set saved as a text file. This file has some additional comments I inserted describing how the actions work.
12 Scripts for actions