the patch exposes a rna property to get the active edit mode face. This is a hack.
However it's a small patch (a.k.a. easy to revert later if needed).
The official plan is to wait for BMesh before tackling it properly. Nevertheless TexFace panel is really important for BGE.
Missing: operators to copy the current parameters to other selected faces.
* note: what I changed from the original patch is the UI script. The pool wasn't defined and it was using tabs.
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