Ok, I think I've got this squared away...posting here in case it might help
someone else.
Sander's recommendation to wrap the call to my controllers changeCategory()
method in a "scope.$apply()" definitely needed to be done. However, even
though I could see that my controller's method was being
Hi Brian,
You are changing things outside angular. You have to tell angular to update
it's stuff. You do that with an scope.$apply
have a look: http://jsbin.com/qohunubi/1/edit
Here is an article that explains it a bit
more: http://jimhoskins.com/2012/12/17/angularjs-and-apply.html
Regards
San
