Automatically Close a Workpath

[Trevor.Dennis]

If we use the Lasso tool in combination with Alt/Opt, we can close the selection by letting go of the Alt key.  It's a useful trick that speeds up your workflow.  So I am wondering if there is a similar way to close a workpath?  I have tried the modifier keys.  Escape obviously ends the current operation so you can lay more 'unconnected' points to the same path.  AFAIK our only option is to hover over the start point, and I am finding this not so easy since moving to a 4K screen.

[Bojan Živković]

"So I am wondering if there is a similar way to close a workpath?"

I would like to know the trick too, I am not aware of that possibility.

[c.pfaffenbichler]

I am not aware of such a feature, either. 

I suppose it might be possible to use a Script and assign a shortcut to that. 

[Stephen Marsh]

@Trevor.Dennis – So the path control points don't scale on the 4K screen?

[Trevor.Dennis]

I have the UI set to 200% and Windows display settings set to 125%.  My issue with scaling is that I have two 24" 1920 x 1200 screens, along with the Asus ProArt 29" 3848 x 2160, and a 19" 4K XcenceLab Pen Display.  The Windows 125% scaling makes the 1920 x 1200 screens already a bit too chunky, and AFAIK (and I did look into this, but would dearly love to be proved wrong) you can't scale Windows Display settings independantly for each screen.

I can remember thinking that the odd poster to this forum deserved to be the position they are in, because they didn't research the whole DPI thing, and I am now guilty of it. 😞  I was telling Dave and Jane recently that adding the Pen Display has broken the Windows 11 Window moving and parking.  Something I absolutely love — especially with having so much screen space.  Turning off the Pen Display (the lower screen) does not fix that either.

So you are spot on Stephen.  That is what drove my question about the Pen tool, but it would be a useful feature even if your display DPI was better than mine, and/or you had decent eye sight.  If we don't get an answer, and I suspect we won't, I'll move the thread to Ideas and add it to the list of low-probability-new-features.

[Trevor.Dennis]

A bit of a tangent from the OP, but I fixed Windows 11 docking.  It turned out to be easy whern I actually looked into it.  Settings > Snap windows had become unchecked.  I turned it on and it worked.  Who'd have thought?

I don't think there is a shortcut for closing a path.  I started an Idea thread, which is all we can do.