Dropdown lists are a poor experience

[johnjamesjacoby]

Listing out hundreds of topics (and a potentially large number of forums) in drop boxes is a really poor experience. These should be replaced with a jQuery UI based autocomplete, and fall-back to a dropdown.

Randomly found this today, and thought of this ticket. Seems fairly easy to implement, and we wouldn't have to create all the jquery variables to make it work. According to the docs, we'd pretty much only have to enqueue the script, and add some CSS.

​http://harvesthq.github.com/chosen/

Here's a nice ajax vs. of chosen as well:
​https://github.com/meltingice/ajax-chosen

What particular areas is this ticket referring to?

Related #1512

Probably should get the boot to 2.3 >:D

(In [4259]) Dropdowns:

• Revert back to text inputs for topic and forum ID's in metaboxes.
• Fixes memory issues when loading thousands of posts.
• Fixes #1878.
• See #1901.

(In [4260]) Suggest:

• First pass at adding autocomplete to forum and topic ID's.
• Adds ajax.php to bbp-includes/admin/.
• Updates metabox inputs back to type 'text'.
• @todo phpdoc and inline doc, and nonce checks.
• See #1901.

(In [4261]) Suggest:

• Combine admin/ajax.php into admin/admin.php.
• Tweak metabox output and CSS.
• Adds phpdoc and inline doc.
• Fixes #1901

When editing a Forum, Topic or Reply within WP-Admin if the intended 'Parent' Forum/Topic? has visibility set to 'Private' or 'Hidden' autocomplete will NOT show the apllicable Forum ID or Topic ID for selection as the 'Parent' object.

Fixed in r4359.