Overlay service

[jelbourn]

• Portals and PortalHosts
• DomPortalHost
• Skeleton Overlay service
• Overlay sizing
• Overlay global positioning
• Overlay relative positioning
• Overlay scrolling
• Overlay animation

[aminebizid]

How can we help to close this issue and start interesting components

[ratscrew]

would it be possible to return the component from the promise after its attached:

line 14 from https://github.com/angular/material2/blob/master/src/core/overlay/overlay-ref.ts

  attach(portal: Portal<any>): Promise<any> {
    return this._portalHost.attach(portal).then(() => {
      this._updatePosition();
    });
  }

would there be any objection to making it:

  attach(portal: Portal<any>): Promise<any> {
    return this._portalHost.attach(portal).then((_comp) => {
      this._updatePosition();
      return _comp;
    });
  }

my current use case is for a right click context menu that I need to bind to after its attached.

[jelbourn]

@ratscrew I might be possible to play with the generics a bit to cut out some of the any; it's definitely something I want to explore before I consider the portal / overlay stuff to be mature enough to release on its own.

[DennisSmolek]

+1 for @ratscrew's issue.. I was also just tearing my hair out trying to figure out how to access the component ref of the resulting portal component when I used the ComponentPortal.

I'm re-writing a set of components that use the dynamicComponentLoader and pass values from a directive to the resulting popup but I can't seem to access the ComponentRef any other way. For the time being I'm using the modded version..

[jelbourn]

Closing this issue for now, going to track remaining items in smaller issues.

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