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This is completely selfish of a request, but in the original format of the game, when you opened the paperdolls and then dragged them to a spot on the screen, they would lock there. So every time you closed them, when you opened them again they would be where you left them, instead of back at their default positions. I'm super anal about stuff like that, I like to have all the paper dolls and inventory windows set to appear off to the side where they dont block the entire screen. If there is any way to do this, it would be awesome!

There is a nine years old patch that addressed this somewhat http://sourceforge.net/p/exult/patches/28/
Never got implemented, might be interesting to add.

It was run time only (so on restart of Exult you needed to do this again) but so was the original, I think.

Took a quick look and made the patch easier to apply and for current SVN.

Awesome. You are the proverbial bomb my friend

And now to show my ignorance. What do I do with the .diff file?

You'd need to compile Exult

Aha... and is there a page somewhere that tells how to do that for someone who is programmerly challenged?

http://exult.info/faq.php#compile_snapshot -> https://sourceforge.net/p/exult/code/HE ... ADME.win32 (you will need to download the SVN source off our download page). Once you manage to compile Exult like this, use the patch command to patch the source code with the diff file (for example "patch -p0 -i gump-xy-save.diff" in MSYS).

Okay, I read both of those pages (and the actual file in my actual Exult directory), attempted to do exactly what it says, and discovered that I don't program games (or anything else) for a reason... I'm completely lost.
And I find it hilarious to my own detriment that this is AFTER you made it EASIER to patch it... lol