Photoshop CS5 insert specific text in part of save as dialogue box

Question

Hi,
I have a large number of images to export as web-images.
I have an action in Photoshop (CS5 sadly) that works just fine.
However I need to rename them.
I select part of the name and overwrite with the new text and press enter and it continues.
In a perfect world I would be able to select one of, say 3 different optional texts to be inserted over the selected text.
Is that possible to do in an actionscript?
In a bit less perfect world, I would be able to pause the action - select the text and maybe add a few characters - and kick the action to insert the text and move on.
Example:
Original names have no real name structure.
Original name could be
100000-10_xxx_13.jpg
100000-xx-17h.jpg
100000_00.jpg
Wanted name structure
100000-10-12300-xxx-xxx-01.jpg
Is this possible? A pointer would be nice. :-)
/K

Answer 1

First of all actionscript exists it a Flash feature I do not think you meant that.  Photoshop has action support and has script  stpport.  Actions can use scripts and scripts can use actions.   Actions can only use logic by using scripts.  Actions can also be made interactive by turning on step dialogs.  For example you could add a text layer "Copyright John Smith © 2014" step then turn on the make text layer step dialog. When the step is played the text "Copyright John Smith © 2014"  will be  added and be displayed in text edit mode all highlighted you can edit the text and click on the commit text check mark in the tool option bar to commit your text change or accept the text as recorded.
Action have some control over save file names but not much.  For good naming of output files you need to use Batch or a  Photoshop script.  Scripting is programming which most likely you do not have the required education and skill set to do.   However Photoshop ships with some canned scripts and other can be downloaded from the web to help you process your images.  I would highly recommend searching for and a download for Installing Image Processor Pro plug-in script .  It is better then the Image Processor Script that ships with Photoshop.
Image Processing scripts can save and resize images file of your  images. These scripts dialog provide you with all the options you need to save the file types you need with the save option that you set and you can have these scripts include actions you create to to do custom processing.  You actions only need to deal with things you want to do to the image. File handling and image sizing will be done for you using your options set in the scripts dialog. With Image Processor Pro you cane even encapsulate the dialog setting by recording using the Image Processor Pro.
As long as man exists this will be a less then perfect world we make mistakes and learn from them .  A perfect world would be boring there would be nothing to do.....