Export as one frame in png by default [SOLVED]

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Is there a way to set the default setting of the ‘export as’ to be ‘selected frame’ and ‘png’?
I’m usually exporting single images and I feel I’m always changing this settings.
Ideally I would like to have the option to set different shortcuts for both animation and single frame.
I could probably do it in LUA, but I wanted to be sure there is no native option available.

Cheers!

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I created a script that allows to export the current frame as PNG.
It just pops a dialog to set the path and it saves the current frame to that location.
I personnaly made a shortcut to execute the script. I find it very convenient.

local spr = app.activeSprite
if not spr then
  app.alert("No active sprite found!")
  return
end

local frameNumber = app.activeFrame.frameNumber
if not frameNumber then
  app.alert("No active frame selected!")
  return
end

-- Create a new temporary sprite with the active frame only
local tmpSprite = Sprite(spr.width, spr.height)
local tmpLayer = tmpSprite.layers[1]

for i, layer in ipairs(spr.layers) do
  if layer.isVisible then
    local cel = layer:cel(frameNumber)
    if cel then
      -- Copy the image of the visible cel to the new sprite
      tmpLayer = tmpSprite:newLayer()
      tmpLayer.name = layer.name
      local newCel = tmpSprite:newCel(tmpLayer, 1, cel.image:clone(), Point(cel.position))
      newCel.image:drawImage(cel.image)
    end
  end
end

-- Flatten the temporary sprite to merge all layers
tmpSprite:flatten()

-- Now use the SaveFileAs dialog to save the temporary sprite as a PNG
local function savePng(sprite)
  local filename = sprite.filename:match("(.+)%..+$") or "untitled"
  filename = filename .. "_frame" .. frameNumber .. ".png"

  app.command.SaveFileAs {
    filename = filename,
    fileFormat = "png"
  }
end

savePng(tmpSprite)

-- Clean up: Close the temporary sprite without saving changes
tmpSprite:close()
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