Timeout responses

[devalus]

Hi Tony!

I am using the Textline addon, and want to have certain responses disappear after a set amount of time, so I'm using the SetTimeout(time) sequence to achieve this. I have 2 questions:

1. I'm trying to use a slider to show the time left before responses disappear. I was reading an old thread: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1956&p=10596 where you mentioned that you can "Assign a UI slider to your dialogue UI. " However I can't find the place to assign a slider, is this because I'm using Textline?

2. Instead of defaulting the response to first or last after the timeout, I'm trying to create a separate response triggered only when the time runs out. I thought I could do this by making the last response invisible, but so far I only found the markup tag [nosubtitle] and none for hiding it from the response menu. Is there a simple method of achieving this?

Thanks for your help as always

Amy

[Tony Li]

Hi Amy,

1. I'm trying to use a slider to show the time left before responses disappear. ... However I can't find the place to assign a slider, is this because I'm using Textline?

Assign the slider here:

2. Instead of defaulting the response to first or last after the timeout, I'm trying to create a separate response triggered only when the time runs out. I thought I could do this by making the last response invisible, but so far I only found the markup tag [nosubtitle] and none for hiding it from the response menu. Is there a simple method of achieving this?

No simple method yet. I considering how to add this capability in the next update. It will likely be a new option for the Dialogue Manager's Input Settings > Response Timeout Action dropdown, something like "Custom". Then you'd be able to provide a custom method that would do something.

What would be a good workflow for you (and any other readers who are reading this post) to define this timeout response? Another response that is somehow tagged "don't show in menu, but use on timeout"?

[devalus]

Hi Tony,

Thanks for the response, I now have a timeout slider.

Not sure what the best workflow for defining a timeout response would be, but for my purposes just a Boolean to indicate that this is a timeout response and the ability to set it to hide or show would work just fine.

[Tony Li]

That's what I was thinking, too. I'll try to get that into the next update.

[devalus]

Thanks!