READ THIS TO AVOID A LOT OF WORK!

New way of linking to tracker pages: just use the parameter "aid" (artifact ID),
to avoid a lot of manual updates later in wiki and svn.

Example:
=========

OLD WAY TO LINK TO TRACKER
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Complete url of a script in Upload
http://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=25349&group_id=153&atid=467

If we move this in contrib this url will become
http://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=25349&group_id=153&atid=468
467 becomes 468, so we have to update this in wiki page.

Later on, when this moves into Trunk, the url will become
http://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=25349&group_id=153&atid=469
468 becomes 469, so we have to update the url in wiki page and svn.

Annoying!

NEW WAY TO LINK TO TRACKER
-----------------------------

Best way to link to tracker page is using:
http://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=25349

Use "func=detail"
Use "aid"            (which is the "artifact ID")

DON'T use "group_id" (which is the project ID, bf-extensions is project 153)
DON'T use "atid"     (which is the "artifacts tracker ID")

Like this, the url is unique, and we will avoid to update wiki pages and svn after moving pages
 


[[Split portion of a mixed commit.]]

* Moved setting of properties to callback function (it is bad practise to set it in the draw code).
* Fixed distance calculation of parented objects.
* API change: add_modal_handler -> modal_handler_add
* Regression: I had to disable area display for selection with more than 2 meshes (for now, still searching for a nice solution).
* Fixed Local/Global vert-loc calculations in EditMode.

* Applied patch by Filiciss Muhgue that (mostly) fixes the quad view. Thanks for that!
* Patch link: https://projects.blender.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=127&aid=24932&group_id=9
* TODO: Make Quad view more useful (fix text position, display 2D value of the hypotenuse rather than the 3D one)

tested rev:32411

tested as working rev 31965

by Filiciss Muhgue (filiciss). Thanks a lot!

Part 2: Extensions

added warning to panel measure

* See http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-committers/2010-September/028654.html

* Removed some TODO comments
* Updated version log

- comforming after my commit in bf-blender:
  - removed the categories from addons names
  - made 'version' a tuple of integers
  - added 'api' field
  - formatted wiki and trackers pages and added where needed (empty pages are yet to be written by the authors though)

- more conforming:
  - 1 tab = 4 spaces

- please check everything is fine in case I made some gross mistake

* Now it should _finally_ work as intended.

- mesh_surface_sketch.py
- render_renderfarmfi.py
- space_view3d_align_tools.py
- object_cloud_gen.py

also move bl_addon_info to the top for faster parsing.

These scritps still need changes related to parent classes
- mesh_surface_sketch.py
- render_renderfarmfi.py
- space_view3d_align_tools.py
- object_cloud_gen.py

* Version 0.7.5.2 - Changed callback registration back to original code & fixed bug in there (use bl_idname instead of bl_label)

* Thanks to jesterKing for pointing that out :-)

adding a warning in the measure panel script, it is really bugged
jesterKing and others report laggines and UI stuck
tested and confirming

* Also added display of dx,dy,dz lines
* Changed the "dist" colors to something not already used by x/y/z axes.
* Inspired by warpi's patch here: http://blenderartists.org/forum/showpost.php?p=1671033&postcount=47

- every script is now (2,5,3)
- added warning field in bl_addon_info so every dev knows about this: when "warning" field is not empty, a warning icon appears and text alerts 
users about a buggy script (this is used during development, released scripts should must have this empty of course)
- formatted scripts info like this
  - GPL
  - docstring
  - bl_addon_info
  - imports
  so that the actual script starts after the bl_addon_info dict
- removed old 2.4x cruft like __url__, __bpydoc__, __author__ etc, not needed anymore (when the case integrated info with bl_addon_info and in 
case of one email meta just put it in the GPL)

- next commits I plan to do contrib scripts and conform io scripts naming