AngularJS ng-repeat don't see scope variable - in WYSIWYG editor loaded with AJAX? -

i'm modifying website, built angularjs, , in 1 page have wysiwyg editor.

the whole widget includes editor, div has 'ng-controller="textscontroller"'.

in div have button, clicking on displays editor. , initializing of editor happens in directive - "richtexteditor".

so - i'm making popup in editor, has show images server. put code pulling images in controller ... , there set

$http.get('/url/to/files').success(function(data) {    $scope.imagesfromserver = data;  });

and in view have

'ng-repeat="image in imagesfromserver"'

and problem ngrepeat doesn't see items.

i have 2 ideas:

the view, containing ngrepeat (the html editor, , popup images well) loads ajax, , @ moment scope variable not set.
i'm initializing scope variable in wrong place. (eventually has in directive instead of controller? ... examples i've seen , done far - pull every data in controller, , view sees directly.)

hope i've described situation clearly.

thanks in advance.

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