Angular 7 scroll event does not fire

Question

For implementing a spy nav bar in my Angular app in a MatDialog component. I implemented a directive to spy for the scroll event using

@HostListener('window:scroll', ['$event'])

I also tried 'scroll' as event name. But the event does not seem to fire. I tried several approaches, e. g. by using the HostListener directly in the dialog component, by using the JavaScript window.onscroll() function and the rxjs fromEvent() function but without success.

Trying other css events (e. g. window:click) work fine. I also tried it in a "normal" component that is not displayed as a dialog but the event is not fired there either.

What could be the cause of this behaviour?

Answer 1

Here is an alternative solution which works rather well.

In short:

ngOnInit() {
    // Add an event listener to window
    // Window can be defined in the pollyfiles.ts as: 
    // if (window) {
    //    (window as any).global = window;
    // }
    window.addEventListener('scroll', this.scroll, true); //third parameter
}

ngOnDestroy() {
    window.removeEventListener('scroll', this.scroll, true);
}

scroll = (event: any): void => {
  // Here scroll is a variable holding the anonymous function 
  // this allows scroll to be assigned to the event during onInit
  // and removed onDestroy
  // To see what changed:
  const number = event.srcElement.scrollTop;
  console.log(event);
  console.log('I am scrolling ' + number);
};