How to Perform action on dialog selection

[dscarmon]

Hi All,
I am very new to AGS, and I am finding it to be very intuitive and flexible!
The challenge I am trying to overcome is this:  I need the character to take an action immediately after selecting dialog option 1 (code below). The way it is working now, the action will not happen until I click on the character again. I suspect this is because of my usage of HasOptionBeenChosen, but after looking at all the dialog options in the manual, I didn't see another way to do this. Please let me know if I need to add more context or if I am missing something. Thank you!

Code: ags

function cOldBen_Interact()
{
	if (bendialog == 10)
  {
  }
//start the dialog
    dDialog1.Start();
    bendialog = 1;
    Display("The variable is %d",bendialog);
    dKillorSpare1.Start();

//When option 1 is chosen, set variables, walk to select xy, play animations
	if (dKillorSpare1.HasOptionBeenChosen(1))
  {
    StopDialog();
    bendialog = 2;
    benkill = 1;
    Display("Kill is %d",benkill);
    cGunslinger.Walk(705, 534, eBlock, eWalkableAreas);
    cGunslinger.Animate(7, 10, eOnce);
    cOldBen.Animate(8, 8, eOnce);
    Display("The variable is %d",bendialog);
    
  }

[Khris]

First of all: starting a dialog gets queued and will only run after the current function has finished (please make sure to always read the manual entries for commands in their entirety).

Secondly, you can run standard script commands right inside your dialog scripts; all you need to do is to indent them by at least one space.

Which means that  dDialog1.Start();  is the only command you should have in there, and move all that happen during the dialog into the dialog script.

[dscarmon]

Much appreciated! I must have missed that, thank you.