General purpose drawing under OPPID

When working on OpenPlant PowerPID, I am able to access most of the general drawing command that on PowerDratf. The problem starts when creating a new Layer with color and linetyle ByLayer, and drawing a line, the line doesn't inherit the layer properties.

Is there a way to use the OPPID platform for general puposes drawing (including user interface like the taks bar)?

Regards,

Jacques.