Waiting for a character to finish an action without blocking

[Wogoat]

I'm working on a game with a fairly standard distraction puzzle.  Character walks away, and eventually comes back.

When the character comes back, I have it so she walks to her spot, says something, then animates sitting down.
I'd like to have her do this in order without the movement and animation using eBlock so the game doesn't pause when she moves.

However if I do, she starts walking, immediately says her line and animates sitting, all while still walking to her spot.
I'm sure there's something simple I'm missing but I've completely overlooked it.  Any suggestions for how to handle this?

[Khris]

You could use a timer:

Code: ags

  cWoman.Walk(123, 123);
  SetTimer(1, 100); // 2.5 seconds

// in Room's RepExec
  if (IsTimerExpired(1)) {
    cWoman.Say();
    // animation

An alternative without a timer:

Code: ags

  cWoman.Walk(123, 123);
  walking_to_chair = true;  // room variable, bool

// in Room's RepExec
  if (walking_to_chair && !cWoman.Moving) {
    walking_to_chair = false;
    cWoman.Say();
    // animation

There might be a slight problem with the second method because iirc, Character.Moving is only set to true at the next game loop and so the condition might be true immediately. To compensate, you can add a coordinates check like && cWoman.x > 120 to the condition.