Timeline events are sometimes skipped over

[McStebb]

start_timeline() skips first event

I have a few points in my VN where I use [call_node... to do some custom UI stuff. I have graphic buttons for our characters that I click to decide who to talk to (as a graphical replacement for Dialogic's built in choice buttons)

This is what that looks like (they send a signal with the target timeline attached as a String):

func _portrait_button_pressed(Timeline: String):	

	Dialogic.start_timeline(Timeline)
	get_viewport().set_input_as_handled()
	
	#Despawn all the buttons after one is pressed
	get_tree().call_group("PortraitButtons", "queue_free")
	pass

The problem is the first line of the target destination always gets skipped.

I've seen a few other people have this issue in both 1.x and 2. I tried adding a blank line after the label and also made sure to have get_viewport().set_input_as_handled() after every instance where I call start_timeline()

No luck, it still skips the first event.
As a workaround, I can put [wait_input hide_text="false"] at the beginning of every timeline & after every label that I jump to from start_timeline(), but that isn't great.

join Character (Portrait) and update Character (Portrait) will sometimes also skip the next event in the timeline

This one isn't as consistent, but join, update, and leave will also sometimes skip the next line in the Timeline.

For example, in my timeline:

join Mitchi (HuhPerk) 2
Mitchi leans in, interested.
update Mitchi (Normal)
You scroll through your camera roll to find your favorite shot. It's a picture of...

The line "Mitchi leans in, interested" is never displayed. Mitchi joins, immediately updates to "Normal", and then "You scroll through..." is the next line that is displayed.

Note: I know that you can use Mitchi (Portrait): to update on the same line, the way I did it above is a carryover from Naninovel, where @char Mitchi.Normal is the syntax for changing portrait, and it had to be on its own line. It was just way easier to find-replace the syntax for my project when I was porting it out of Unity this way.

[McStebb]

Appears to be fixed by #1866!