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How can I "Merge Visible" to a layer in a Photoshop script?

The activeDocument.mergeVisibleLayers(); command simply flattens the image to the Background layer.

I am looking for a way to merge all layers to a new layer which stays on top of all other layers, like the Layer->Merge Visible (Ctrl+Shift+E) Photoshop command.

Is that possible?

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    Not sure if this is the best solution but it worked for me:

    // Copy all visible layers to clipboard (true = merged)
activeDocument.activeLayer.copy(true);
// then paste them (creates a new layer)
activeDocument.paste();

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    The answer by George does not work well with tranparent images (it crops the transparency and aligns the pasted image to the middle). Here is a script that simply executes the Merge Visible command, found with the Scripting Listener plug-in:

    var idMrgV = charIDToTypeID("MrgV");
executeAction(idMrgV, undefined, DialogModes.NO);
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