Use the Pen tool and apply Stroke and fill as you draw

[SteveP110]

Currently if i set the stroke and fill colours then use the pen tool the fill reverts to transparent.Yet I want to apply the fill as I draw. Is this possible

[loukash]

31 minutes ago, SteveP110 said:

I want to apply the fill as I draw. Is this possible

Yes, after you have added the second node. 
My quarter-educated guess is that it's literally by design because a single node doesn't have any xy dimension to display a fill attribute. It's all just math, after all.

[walt.farrell]

2 minutes ago, loukash said:

Yes, after you have added the second node.

You need 3 nodes to have a fill, don't you?

[loukash]

Just now, walt.farrell said:

You need 3 nodes to have a fill, don't you?

Nope.

This eye consists of nothing but one node:

But to apply a fill, you need two. It can still be an open two-node curve with a fill.

[v_kyr]

23 minutes ago, loukash said:

But to apply a fill, you need two. It can still be an open two-node curve with a fill.

Just introduce/use the term Segment here all together with nodes, which then should make it more clear! - With just one Node there is no Segment, you need at least two Nodes in order to have/build a Segment, which in turn you can then apply a fill to.

See also:

• About lines, curves and shapes
• Edit curves and shapes
• ... etc.

[loukash]

1 minute ago, v_kyr said:

you need at least two Nodes in order to have/build a Segment, which in turn you can then apply a fill to.

… and which then can be closed by snapping the two nodes into one, and to exist as a "One Node Eye" with fills and strokes à go go…

Thanks for clarifying the terms!  

[v_kyr]

Maybe a short screencast shows that better (two nodes do build a segment, which can have a fill) ...

 

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… and which then can be closed by snapping the two nodes into one, and to exist as a "One Node Eye" with fills and strokes à go go…

Well, if needed ... 😀

[SteveP110]

I am not getting any fill, when I draw with the pen tool though I set it at the beginning.As soon as i place the second node the fill reverts to Tranparent

 

What I haven't shown is even if i close the path there is not fill unless I add it retrospectively. The behaviours shown above are what I expect and what I am used to. Notice when I start a new path the initial setting of black stroke and green fill are indicated in the colour selection yet on second node placement fill reverts to transparent.

I am assuming that I have something set wrong but cannot find anything that is related to my issue

Edit- Default- Factory Reset carried out first and new document 

 

[SteveP110]

Just to confuse me even more, if I add a fill after the second node, the fill is added for all subsequent nodes. Well until I start a new shape with the pen tool then back to Transparency

 

 

[lepr]

3 hours ago, SteveP110 said:

I am assuming that I have something set wrong but cannot find anything that is related to my issue

 

Your AD app window is too narrow to show it, but there is a Use Fill option in the context toolbar of the Pen. The automatic setting of fill to "none" happens when that option is disabled. Click the double chevron at right hand end of context toolbar to access controls that do not fit inside app window.

[v_kyr]

Here's a visualisation of what @,,, meant ...

[loukash]

2 hours ago, ,,, said:

Your AD app window is too narrow to show it, but there is a Use Fill option in the context toolbar of the Pen.

Argh, I always keep forgetting this! Thanks!

[SteveP110]

I missed that as well, and it is plainly obvious on my normal screen size.reduced window for screen recording. Many thanks, feel silly but that's nothing unusual