Actions activated on dialog without delay?

In the dialog section you can specify an action to be excuted when a certain dialog line is chosen. However, it seems like the game waits until that dialog line has actually played out, before it runs the action.

actually no... But you can check that another line as displayed will be shown and enter a blank text into the second textfield. Then in the action you can display the text and before also run other action parts. 

Not really something I'd want to do with every line of dialog, but sounds like a good idea for special situations. Thanks!

I hate the default dialog system. It's really antiquated, but they can't really rip it out & replace it with a new system because of the back compatibility policy, as anyone that updated would likely have to rework all their dialogs again.

You could always create your own custom dialog system which is what Daedalic Entertainment & few other people here do. It's a fair bit of work, but at least you get to design it exactly the way you want, though I would recommend keeping it fairly simple if you do - something along the lines of the 4 choice dialog options like Telltale Games uses.

Yeah, since this is the first time I'm working with Visionaire, I think I want to keep it simple this time around. Might be worth looking into for my next game though.