📋Multipick Block

Create a dropdown list of predefined items for a user to select.

The multipick block allows a user to select an item from a predefined list of options, or have an option randomly selected.

Title

• Click the pencil icon next to the block’s title to edit it

  • Tip: This is also the block’s variable name, which can be used to dynamically populate data in other blocks.

Text

• Enter one dropdown menu option per line

• Use the pipe character "|" to delineate key/value pairs, like "small | 512x512". In the menu, the user would see

Random mode

Select the Randomize option to randomly select an option when the glif is run, without any user input required.

In the "cake/pie" example above, this would result in half of runs using "cake" and half using "pie"

Key-value mode

You can also specify key-value pairs using a pipe delimeter (|, generally found above the Enter/Return key on most keyboards)

This allows you to show the user a list of options like "small, medium, large" but have those values map to i.e.

small | 512x512
medium | 1024x1024
large | 2048x2048

It's also possible to have keys correspodn to full JSON objects that you can then combine with the JSONExtractor block! Very fancy!

harry potter | {"class": "wizard", "age": "kid", "gender": "male"}
xena | {"class": "warrior", "age": "young", "gender": "female"}
gandalf | {"class": "wizard", "age": "crazy old", "gender": "istari"}