Help with Pulldowns - Make them fun

For those who own rooms here at DeviantLives you know you can create custom pulldowns. So lets talk about creating pulldowns and having some fun with them. 

The Basics

A pulldown for your room has two parts to it:

1. What a chatter sees when they click on the pulldown
2. What is posted in chat once they select that pulldown

To add a pulldown message to your room in your admin screen you add a line like:

       

  what to display in the pulldown##What do post in chat along with any text
         
 

Here are examples of pulldowns you can create.

Example 1:  Simple Pulldown

       

  Hello##Hello my friend
         
 

When you click the pulldown you will see the word Hello.  When you select Hello and select a chatter in the user pulldown and type a message in chat the world will see:

[YOU] Says to [Selected Chatter] Hello my friend {and whatever message you typed}

Example 2:  Placing the recipients name

If you want to place the name of the chatter receiving the pulldown message at a specific spot in the pulldown message you can place a $r$ at that location.

       

  Hello##Hello $r$ my friend
         
 

When you click the pulldown you will see the word Hello.  When you select Hello and select a chatter in the user pulldown  and type a message in chat the world will see:

[YOU] Says Hello [Selected Chatter] my friend {and whatever message you typed} .......  See how the placement of [Selected Chatter] has changed?

Example 3:  Displaying an image

When a user selects a pulldown you can display an image in what gets posted.

       

  Hello##Hello have a beer $r$ and enjoy <img src="url to some picture">
         
 

When you click the pulldown you will see the word Hello.  When you select Hello and select a chatter in the user pulldown and type a message in chat the world will see:

[YOU] Says Hello have a beer [selected chatter] and have fun {the picture you provided} and {whatever message you typed} .......  Now the placement of the [Selected Chatter] has changed and now a picture is also displayed.

Example 4:  Adding icons to the pulldown text

While adding images to pulldowns are a challenge one can add icons. To do so you need to get the code for the icon from here:  https://www.w3schools.com/charsets/ref_emoji.asp.  Then create your pulldown using the code:

       

  Welcome ⛪##Welcomes $r$
         
 

The code ⛪ will display as a tiny house icon ⛪.

So go ahead have fun with pulldowns in your room.