I'm trying to figure out to detect when the player is in dialogue during a timed event. I haven't found any way to do so yet. My Wait event simply skips over my code & starts a new Wait. If I could detect in Dialogue like you can with inCombat, I would be home free.

Anyone know how to do this?

The player is never in dialogue, because the PC does not speak.

You can test whether a particular actor is in dialogue with the player (but not just "any actor", I don't think, at least without a stupid loop or so on).

http://www.creationkit.com/IsInDialogueWithPlayer_-_ObjectReference

So it depends exactly what you want to do?

i can tell you how to do it in geck (new to ck), don't know how much of this applies to ck or the new scripting language, but basically, i guess it'll be pretty much the same...:
dialogue is a menu (menumode 1009 in fnv), and menumode is also a command. so, since menumode 1009 only applies if player is in dialogue (not npc conversation), you'd just go "if ( menumode 1009 )" etc., if this returns true, pc is currently in dialogue.
still, that's all geck as said.

Dialogue is not a menumode. Nor is any other "menu" where the gameworld continues on it's merry way in the background. Like the alchemy screen etc ...

I'm also interested in this, need this to make something that has to do with Camera. The MenuMode doesn't work since Dialogue is not considered MenuMode anymore.

Just seems weird that you can test if an certain NPC is in dialogue with player but not the other way around. I really need to know when the PC is in dialogue with ANY NPC so that my timing loop can work properly.

oh ok, sorry then. this was geck-info like i said, ain't that far in ck yet