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Yea, that worked. I recorded the AM code using the menu item for fill rather than the KBSC, so I was able to turn on preserve transparency. No need to lock the layer.
...#target photoshop
var doc = activeDocument;
var curLayer = doc.activeLayer;//layer to fill
if(curLayer.name !='sample'){
var samp = doc.layers.getByName('sample'); //color sampler layer must be named "sample"
var base = doc.layers.getByName('base'); //layer from which to sample the color"
var sampLocation = new Array((samp.bounds[2].value
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Actions and scripts can not get the position of the mouse/pen cursor so what you want to do is impossible. However, if you set a Color sampler at the pixels color you want to use a script can do what you want to do using the Color Sampler position and layer color. Photoshop Scripts can use logic to do the process you want to do. With the exception of " Lock transparent pixels at current layer" The Layer's tramsparency can ve lock and preserved. I do not think Photoshop has such a feature. And I do not remembet if you get the opacity of the pixel of a sample color becaus the Point can be a single pixels or an area of pixels.
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You only get the Color To fill with as a solor color. The Layer you would fill woul be filled with that color. Of cource you could lick it curreb transparenct befor you fill and also adjust the layer opacity after the fill.
I would offer the following action steps as a suggestion based on your wishlist:
The first thing is to create an eyedropper tool preset for the action to select in order to make the eyedropper active from the action playback. This is a 2 part action, or just remember to pick the colour first and then run the action deleting the first two steps if you are doing them manually.
You may find the script useful for getting at color samplers position and color. You would need to loop through the document layer or get the layers by some means to process the different layer you want to fill. Where you can select layers relatively in an action you need to know what the layer structure is and which layer is active when the action is played. For Conditional Action steps can only test some condition of a layer like its type if it has at a mask. Can not process layer name logically and if selected by name the action will fail if the name does not exist of if several layer have the same name which layer will be the one selected. Scripts are more powerful than actions.
var orig_ruler_units = app.preferences.rulerUnits;
app.preferences.rulerUnits = Units.PIXELS; // Set the ruler units to PIXELS
message="Canvas Width=" + app.activeDocument.width.value + " ,Height=" + app.activeDocument.height.value;
for (var s=0,len=app.activeDocument.colorSamplers.length;s<len;s++) {
var colorSamplerRef = app.activeDocument.colorSamplers
;var rgbC = new SolidColor
rgbC.rgb.red = colorSamplerRef.color.rgb.red;
rgbC.rgb.green = colorSamplerRef.color.rgb.green;
rgbC.rgb.blue = colorSamplerRef.color.rgb.blue;
//alert(rgbC.rgb.hexValue)
message = message + "\nColorSampler=" + s + " ,x=" + colorSamplerRef.position[0].value + " ,y=" + colorSamplerRef.position[1].value
+ " Color=" + rgbC.rgb.hexValue;
}
alert(message);
app.preferences.rulerUnits = orig_ruler_units; // Reset units to original settings
Stephen action will be interactive and work if all you want to do is process the currently targeted raster layer. Then target the next layer up in the stack. If the next layer is also a one you wish the fill you can use the action again. One thing to note is Stephen Acton will not will not work for all layer types. The lock transparent and later merge clip layer will not work if the current targets layer is a layer like a shape layer. The fill Layer will remain clipped to the shape layer or text layer.
As the others said, you can't record the mouse position. What you can do is create a script. Create a layer with a shape dot. This will act as your cursor position. In the script, reference the layer you want to fill and also the dot layer. They you can use the dot location for getting the color sample and applying it to another layer. I've been doing some thing along those lines but morphing shape layer between two paths, then using dot layer to sample a reference layer for color and applying a gradient to each shape layer.
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