Adobe Reader drawing without Comment Tools or Method to set "Make Properties Default" without popup

Hi everyone,
Spending a few days to find a solution for drawing lines, polylines, polygons, circles, rectangles, etc. It looks like a "dead end" since I want to develop a plugin for Adobe Reader that can draw custom Lines, Polylines, Polygons, ... (objects I can set my styles without using built-in style dialog). I want to use my custom dialog to set styles and do drawing without using Comment Tools. The problem is: when I use AVPageViewDrawingProc callback, I can draw only rectangle, polyline, polygon, no way to draw circle, text, etc.
Another solution is to use Comment Tools. But when changing between tools I want to apply my styles to the tool (line color, text color, text size, ...), like the way you right click on an annotation and select "Properties", then mark "Make Properties Default" as checked before selecting "OK". I don't want to show the dialog to confuse user when he changes tools. So, is there any API method to help me selecting an annotation and mark this selected annotation to be default styles?
I still can't find a way to change text size of FreeText realtime.
Anybody can help me?
Kind Regards

If I were building something like this, I would have my plugin create custom annotations. You can draw whatever you want in the appearance of the annotation.

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