In-Line Dialog Options?

[Kaelem Gaen]

Okay, so I was just playing this old Adventure Game  called Veil of Darkness, and I noticed that it goes between the Option list for Dialogs and In-line Dialogs, like I guess the best I can think of would be a Hypertext link to that Dialog topic.

Would that be possible in AGS at the moment?

[Ashen]

You mean launching a Dialog Topic from another, currently running, Topic? There's the goto-dialog X dialog script command (and goto-previous to return to the first Topic).

[Kaelem Gaen]

erm, maybe... do you mean something like this
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|  Hello, my name is Roger, can I help you,  Also if you want to know about the|
|  weather.                                                                                                          |
|__________________________________________________________________|

And clicking on the underlined words in the  Dialog would connect to a topic.  Or like a more recent example, the highlighted words in Morrowind.

[Ashen]

By an odd coincidence, I just played Morrowind for the first time yesterday...
I get what you mean now, and no, it's nothing like what I meant. I don't think there's an easy way to do what you want.
For a start, there's no real way to get which word was clicked - although this thread has a possible suggestion (fourth post). You could assign a range to the link (characters 31 - 38 are the 'help you' link), and any click within that range triggers the appropriate response. However, I don't think you'd be able to use the default Dialog system with this, so in addition to getting the 'hyperlink' words working, you'd need to write your own custom Dialog system.
So possible, but not by default, and probably not without quite a bit of work.

[Kaelem Gaen]

ah thanks, though I'll be lookin if there is more info on it.