I’d like to create a directive that I can control independent of which controller scope it is currently in. I’ve noticed that something like $ionicSideMenuDelegate lets me do this for the side menu (where the menu directive is under a higher scope than the controller to toggle it), but I can’t figure out how they fit together. What sort of object is the delegate exactly and how does it control the directive?
A good way to find out how everything fits together and works is to look at the source code.
https://github.com/driftyco/ionic/tree/master/js/angular
Here you will see the directives and the delegates that are available to them