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The basic problem is Action stop brake the action into parts. Each part is player by the user clicking the play button to play the next part of the action and the same document need to be the active document in the right state.
The easiest way to convert this type of action to a script is use X's action file to script then brake the script produced into the Action Parts. If there are two stops in an action there would be three scripts. ActionPart1 ActionPart2 ActionPart3. Instead of clicking
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you probably refer to some 
This is already very clear example 
You put all his steps from first one he uses in script to 74, and then 75 (which I guess choose Eraser Tool). While step 77, and all others there are you put to else statement. When you run script it goes thru all steps to step 75, then it stops. When you rerun script it continues working from step 77. And so on, when you run script once again it starts from step 1 to stop at step 75, to go further from step 77 when you use (or not) Eareser Tool and run script again. But will his script accept this change?
Here's an example done on @geppettol66959005 script who asked me privately to demonstrate how that could be used in his script. Second part is his original script you have to replace 8 steps part (at bottom of script) to this little modification:
if (!$.getenv('continue')) {
step1(); // Crea
step2(); // Unisci visibili
step3(); // Crea
step4(); // Selezione
step5(); // Crea
step6(); // Imposta
step7(); // Selezione
$.setenv('continue', 1)
}
else {
step8(); // Unisci visibili
$.setenv('continue', '')
}
// script
// TEST
cTID = function(s) { return app.charIDToTypeID(s); };
sTID = function(s) { return app.stringIDToTypeID(s); };
//
//==================== Azione 1 ==============
//
function Azione1() {
// Crea
function step1(enabled, withDialog) {
if (enabled != undefined && !enabled)
return;
var dialogMode = (withDialog ? DialogModes.ALL : DialogModes.NO);
var desc1 = new ActionDescriptor();
var ref1 = new ActionReference();
ref1.putClass(cTID('Lyr '));
desc1.putReference(cTID('null'), ref1);
executeAction(sTID('make'), desc1, dialogMode);
};
// Unisci visibili
function step2(enabled, withDialog) {
if (enabled != undefined && !enabled)
return;
var dialogMode = (withDialog ? DialogModes.ALL : DialogModes.NO);
var desc1 = new ActionDescriptor();
desc1.putBoolean(cTID('Dplc'), true);
executeAction(sTID('mergeVisible'), desc1, dialogMode);
};
// Crea
function step3(enabled, withDialog) {
if (enabled != undefined && !enabled)
return;
var dialogMode = (withDialog ? DialogModes.ALL : DialogModes.NO);
var desc1 = new ActionDescriptor();
var ref1 = new ActionReference();
ref1.putClass(cTID('AdjL'));
desc1.putReference(cTID('null'), ref1);
var desc2 = new ActionDescriptor();
desc2.putClass(cTID('Type'), sTID("vibrance"));
desc1.putObject(cTID('Usng'), cTID('AdjL'), desc2);
executeAction(sTID('make'), desc1, dialogMode);
};
// Selezione
function step4(enabled, withDialog) {
if (enabled != undefined && !enabled)
return;
var dialogMode = (withDialog ? DialogModes.ALL : DialogModes.NO);
var desc1 = new ActionDescriptor();
var ref1 = new ActionReference();
ref1.putEnumerated(cTID('Chnl'), cTID('Chnl'), sTID("RGB"));
desc1.putReference(cTID('null'), ref1);
desc1.putBoolean(cTID('MkVs'), false);
executeAction(sTID('select'), desc1, dialogMode);
};
// Crea
function step5(enabled, withDialog) {
if (enabled != undefined && !enabled)
return;
var dialogMode = (withDialog ? DialogModes.ALL : DialogModes.NO);
var desc1 = new ActionDescriptor();
var ref1 = new ActionReference();
ref1.putClass(cTID('AdjL'));
desc1.putReference(cTID('null'), ref1);
var desc2 = new ActionDescriptor();
var desc3 = new ActionDescriptor();
desc3.putEnumerated(sTID("presetKind"), sTID("presetKindType"), sTID("presetKindDefault"));
desc2.putObject(cTID('Type'), cTID('Crvs'), desc3);
desc1.putObject(cTID('Usng'), cTID('AdjL'), desc2);
executeAction(sTID('make'), desc1, dialogMode);
};
// Imposta
function step6(enabled, withDialog) {
if (enabled != undefined && !enabled)
return;
var dialogMode = (withDialog ? DialogModes.ALL : DialogModes.NO);
var desc1 = new ActionDescriptor();
var ref1 = new ActionReference();
ref1.putEnumerated(cTID('AdjL'), cTID('Ordn'), cTID('Trgt'));
desc1.putReference(cTID('null'), ref1);
var desc2 = new ActionDescriptor();
desc2.putEnumerated(sTID("presetKind"), sTID("presetKindType"), sTID("presetKindCustom"));
var list1 = new ActionList();
var desc3 = new ActionDescriptor();
var ref2 = new ActionReference();
ref2.putEnumerated(cTID('Chnl'), cTID('Chnl'), cTID('Cmps'));
desc3.putReference(cTID('Chnl'), ref2);
var list2 = new ActionList();
var desc4 = new ActionDescriptor();
desc4.putDouble(cTID('Hrzn'), 0);
desc4.putDouble(cTID('Vrtc'), 0);
list2.putObject(cTID('Pnt '), desc4);
var desc5 = new ActionDescriptor();
desc5.putDouble(cTID('Hrzn'), 73);
desc5.putDouble(cTID('Vrtc'), 50);
list2.putObject(cTID('Pnt '), desc5);
var desc6 = new ActionDescriptor();
desc6.putDouble(cTID('Hrzn'), 191);
desc6.putDouble(cTID('Vrtc'), 218);
list2.putObject(cTID('Pnt '), desc6);
var desc7 = new ActionDescriptor();
desc7.putDouble(cTID('Hrzn'), 255);
desc7.putDouble(cTID('Vrtc'), 255);
list2.putObject(cTID('Pnt '), desc7);
desc3.putList(cTID('Crv '), list2);
list1.putObject(cTID('CrvA'), desc3);
desc2.putList(cTID('Adjs'), list1);
desc1.putObject(cTID('T '), cTID('Crvs'), desc2);
executeAction(sTID('set'), desc1, dialogMode);
};
// Selezione
function step7(enabled, withDialog) {
if (enabled != undefined && !enabled)
return;
var dialogMode = (withDialog ? DialogModes.ALL : DialogModes.NO);
var desc1 = new ActionDescriptor();
var ref1 = new ActionReference();
ref1.putEnumerated(cTID('Chnl'), cTID('Chnl'), sTID("RGB"));
desc1.putReference(cTID('null'), ref1);
desc1.putBoolean(cTID('MkVs'), false);
executeAction(sTID('select'), desc1, dialogMode);
};
// Unisci visibili
function step8(enabled, withDialog) {
if (enabled != undefined && !enabled)
return;
var dialogMode = (withDialog ? DialogModes.ALL : DialogModes.NO);
var desc1 = new ActionDescriptor();
desc1.putBoolean(cTID('Dplc'), true);
executeAction(sTID('mergeVisible'), desc1, dialogMode);
};
step1(); // Crea
step2(); // Unisci visibili
step3(); // Crea
step4(); // Selezione
step5(); // Crea
step6(); // Imposta
step7(); // Selezione
step8(); // Unisci visibili
};
//=========================================
// Azione1.main
//=========================================
//
Azione1.main = function () {
Azione1();
};
Azione1.main();
I use both methods to store variables (env and meta), but here a problem is not a method but his ability to use anything that could work whatever he'll decide to use for raliability in future. For now he's figuring out what to do with given tips
There are two kinds of stops in Actions. Stop and Stops with continue. Both can stop the playing of the action and leave the Action position to start playing at the next step in the action after the stop step. You can do anytime you want in Photoshop and when done click play to continue the action. The difference between the two stops is the if you juste wanted to put our a message to the user Stop with conduce allows the user to just to acknowledge that they saw the mess by pressing enter and the action continues. That is like an alert in a script. There is no concept stop in scripting where a script can be started from a different step. You would need to program the script with some logic that would know what part of the script to run each time you run it. I use the document metadata instruction field to record that information. The first my scripts of this type does is look to see what it has recorded there. If it finds none of its recordings in there it know it the first time the script is being run on this document to do its stuff. So it runs part 1 which notes in the instruction field its information and ends execution which could be a message to the user to do something and run the script again. The next time the script is run on the document the script will rune the next part. If part is the last part all of the scripts information will be removed from the instruction field and the scrip will end execution. The allows the full process be done more the one time on a document.
My script all use the instruction field and do not interfere with each be preserving data in the field which is not theirs. My scripts for the most part do not put out message and the user does not know they are using the script more than one. Most of my scripts of the scripts of this type I have were written for use within Actions or toggle function for documents. They are more or less like save and restore steps for action One may save the resolution and ruler in use for the Document in the instruction field. Than action is free to scale the document to a known size without reapplying. The resize a watermark for this size document or select a font size for this size document add the text or watermark then run the script a second time to restore the document resolution scale it back to it original scale..
However Adobe added a bug into scripting in CC 2015.5 and will not allow you to set the instruction files back to null if it were null to begin with. So I set up script event manager new document and open document event to add garbage to the instruction field if it is not in there so the field will not be null.
Adobe add some strang bugs and makes statemnts like its bad to remove copyrights. I do not understand that for they let your set the copyright to anything yow want to using Photoshop's file info. I was jsut trying to set the instruction filed to what it was without the scripts information.
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