Paperdoll stat and image changes
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#228 Paperdoll stat and image changes
In the original Ultima 8, as soon as you hover a piece of armor over the Avatar on his paperdoll, the armor stats immediately update. You don't even have to actually put the item on. In Pentagram, you don't see your armor stats update until you actually put the item on the Avatar. The same thing applies with removing pieces of equipment. The original makes it easier to test out new pieces of armor.
A second issue related to the first, In the original Ultima 8, when you go to remove a piece of clothing from the Avatar, the paperdoll updates as soon as you pull the item off of the Avatar, you don't even need to place it on the ground or anything first. In Pentagram, the paperdoll doesn't update until you actually finish placing the item somewhere else. The original way makes it easier to figure out if you've properly selected the right piece of equipment and if you're moving it appropriately.
The original U8 does seem to treat the paperdoll as a special case. When moving items it shows the items in their current location unchanged until you finish the move, _unless_ they were on the paperdoll, in which case it removes them during the move. (And indeed updates armour and weight stats).
When moving items _to_ the paperdoll, they are shown both in the old and new location.
Minor update in ScummVM version 2.7.0 - Dragging current equipped items in paperdoll now immediately unequips them until dropped back in position. This still doesn't preview the stats before drop, but improves behavior slightly.
Tracking in ScummVM as #14034