Affinity Photo Pen Tool Default Change? (Enabling preserve selection and add new curve) How to? Possible? Driving me crazy!

[TGJPN]

Affinity Photo: Seems like a small thing, but in my workflow, it's become a hassle to always have to push the buttons for the pen tool to:

1. Preserve selection when creating new curves

2. Add new curve to selected curves object

Is it possible to make these two options the default for the pen tool?

[PaulEC]

Have you had a look at the options in the Context Tool Bar (Above the work area.)

[R C-R]

4 hours ago, TGJPN said:

Is it possible to make these two options the default for the pen tool?

I don't think so. The buttons are "sticky" if enabled in the current document, but revert to disabled when creating new documents or saving, closing & reopening one where they last were enabled.

So sort of semi-sticky?

[TGJPN]

1 hour ago, R C-R said:

I don't think so. The buttons are "sticky" if enabled in the current document, but revert to disabled when creating new documents or saving, closing & reopening one where they last were enabled.

So sort of semi-sticky?

Not semi-sticky, but I want sticky!

I often work in different documents using the pen tool, and EVERY TIME I have to click on both buttons on the toolbar. EVERY TIME. And as soon as a work on a different document, repeat. The problem comes when I'm using the pen tool quickly, I forget to select both buttons and I have multiple curves. I usually trace with the pen tool, adjust the curves with the node tool and create a mask.

Workaround help?
What is the easiest way, to take multiple curves and make them into one curve before making them a mask?

Ideally, I just want to make the pen tool default to the options I want, not the options the developers have preprogrammed.

[TGJPN]

3 hours ago, PaulEC said:

Have you had a look at the options in the Context Tool Bar (Above the work area.)

I don't see any options. The buttons I push are above the work area on the context tool bar. I want to change the default state on a couple of those buttons to enabled instead of not enabled by default. They stay enabled once pressed for the current document, but I often work in many documents in one session. It becomes a minor pain, especially when I forget to constantly press them in the new document.