Class Point

GoJS® Diagramming Components
version 3.0.12
by Northwoods Software®

A Point represents an x- and y-coordinate pair in two-dimensional space.

Use the static functions Point.parse and Point.stringify to convert to and from a standard string representation that is independent of the current locale.

When an instance of this class is the value of a property of a GraphObject class or Diagram or CommandHandler or a Tool class, you should treat the object as if it were frozen or read-only -- you cannot modify its properties. This allows the property to return a value without allocating a new instance. If you need to do your own calculations with the value, call copy to make a new instance with the same values that you can modify.

Many methods modify the object's properties and then return a reference to "this" object. The only instance method to allocate a new object is the copy method. The static Point.parse method also allocates a new object.

The "Debug" implementation of this class is significantly slower than the "Release" implementation, mostly due to additional error checking.

You cannot inherit from this class.

Index

Constructors

  • The default constructor produces the Point(0,0). This constructor may take either zero arguments or two arguments.

    Parameters

    • Optional x: number

      The x value.

    • Optional y: number

      The y value.

    Returns Point

Accessors

  • Gets or sets the x value of the Point.

  • Gets or sets the y value of the Point.

Methods

  • Modify this point so that is the sum of the current Point and the x and y co-ordinates of the given Point.

    Parameters

    • p: Point

      The Point to add to this Point.

    Returns Point

    this.

  • Compare this point with a finite line segment given by two Points.

    This method compares this point with a finite line segment determined by the given two Points. If the point is on the finite line segment, this returns zero. If the point is on the left side of the segment, this returns a positive number. If the point is on the right side of the segment, this returns a negative number. If the point is on the infinitely extended line but not within the segment, then this returns a positive number if the point is beyond the end of the segment when going from A1 to A2, or this returns a negative number if the point comes before the segment's start at A1.

    Parameters

    • p: Point

      the start of the finite line segment

    • q: Point

      the end of the finite line segment

    Returns number

    <0 if this Point is on the right side of the line segment, or >0 if this Point is on the left side, or zero if exactly on the finite line segment

    since

    2.2

  • Create a copy of this Point, with the same values.

    Returns Point

  • Compute the angle from this Point to a given (px,py) point. However, if the point is the same as this Point, the direction is zero.

    Parameters

    • px: number
    • py: number

    Returns number

    the angle, in degrees, of the line from this Point to the given point.

  • Compute the angle from this Point to a given Point. However, if the given Point is the same as this Point, the direction is zero.

    Parameters

    • p: Point

      the other Point to which to measure the relative angle.

    Returns number

    the angle, in degrees, of the line from this Point to the given point.

  • Returns the square of the distance from this point to a given point (px, py).

    Parameters

    • px: number
    • py: number

    Returns number

    the square of the euclidean distance.

  • Returns the square of the distance from this Point to a given Point.

    Parameters

    • p: Point

      the other Point to measure to.

    Returns number

    the square of the euclidean distance.

  • Indicates whether the given point (x, y) is equal to this Point.

    Parameters

    • x: number
    • y: number

    Returns boolean

    True if the two Points have identical X and Y values, false otherwise.

    see

    equals

  • Indicates whether the given Point is equal to this Point.

    Parameters

    • p: Point

      The Point to compare to the current Point.

    Returns boolean

    True if the two Points have identical X and Y values, false otherwise.

  • True if this Point has X and Y values that are real numbers and not infinity.

    Returns boolean

  • Modify this Point so that its X and Y values have been normalized to a unit length. However, if this Point is the origin (zero, zero), its length remains zero.

    Returns Point

    this.

  • Modify this point by shifting its values with the given DX and DY offsets.

    Parameters

    • dx: number
    • dy: number

    Returns Point

    this.

  • Modify this point to be the closest point to this point that is on a finite line segment.

    Parameters

    • px: number

      one end of the finite line segment

    • py: number

      one end of the finite line segment

    • qx: number

      the other end of the finite line segment

    • qy: number

      the other end of the finite line segment

    Returns Point

    this modified Point

  • Modify this point to be the closest point to this point that is on a finite line segment.

    Parameters

    • p: Point

      one end of the finite line segment

    • q: Point

      the other end of the finite line segment

    Returns Point

    this modified Point

  • Modify this Point so that has been rotated about the origin by the given angle.

    Parameters

    • angle: number

      an angle in degrees.

    Returns Point

    this.

  • Modify this Point so that its X and Y values have been scaled by given factors along the X and Y axes.

    Parameters

    • sx: number
    • sy: number

    Returns Point

    this.

  • Modify this Point so that its X and Y values are the same as the given Point.

    Parameters

    • p: Point

      the given Point.

    Returns Point

    this.

  • Modify this Point so that its X and Y values correspond to a particular Spot in a given Rect.

    The result is meaningless if Spot.isNoSpot is true for the given Spot.

    Parameters

    • r: Rect

      the Rect for which we are finding the point.

    • spot: Spot

      the Spot; Spot.isSpot must be true for this Spot.

    Returns Point

    this.

  • Modify this Point so that its X and Y values correspond to a particular Spot in a given rectangle.

    The result is meaningless if Spot.isNoSpot is true for the given Spot.

    Parameters

    • x: number

      The X coordinate of the Rect for which we are finding the point.

    • y: number

      The Y coordinate of the Rect for which we are finding the point.

    • w: number

      The Width of the Rect for which we are finding the point.

    • h: number

      The Height of the Rect for which we are finding the point.

    • spot: Spot

      the Spot; Spot.isSpot must be true for this Spot.

    Returns Point

    this the point of the spot in the rectangle.

  • Modify this Point with new X and Y values.

    Parameters

    • x: number
    • y: number

    Returns Point

    this.

  • Modify this point to be at the nearest point on an infinite grid, given the grid's origin and size of each grid cell.

    Parameters

    • originx: number

      the top-left point of one of the grid cells

    • originy: number

      the top-left point of one of the grid cells

    • cellwidth: number

      the size of each grid cell -- must be a real number larger than zero

    • cellheight: number

      the size of each grid cell -- must be a real number larger than zero

    Returns Point

    this modified Point

  • Modify this point to be at the nearest point on an infinite grid, given the grid's origin and size of each grid cell.

    Parameters

    • origin: Point

      the top-left point of one of the grid cells

    • cellsize: Size

      the size of each grid cell

    Returns Point

    this modified Point

  • Modify this point so that is the difference of this Point and the x and y co-ordinates of the given Point.

    Parameters

    • p: Point

      The Point to subtract from the current Point.

    Returns Point

    this.

    see
  • This static function compares a point with a finite line segment.

    If the point is on the finite line segment, this returns zero. If the point is on the left side of the segment, this returns a positive number. If the point is on the right side of the segment, this returns a negative number. If the point is on the infinitely extended line but not within the segment, then this returns a positive number if the point is beyond the end of the segment when going from A1 to A2, or this returns a negative number if the point comes before the segment's start at A1.

    Parameters

    • a1x: number
    • a1y: number
    • a2x: number
    • a2y: number
    • px: number
    • py: number

    Returns number

    <0 if on the right side, or >0 if on the left side, or zero if exactly on the finite line segment

    since

    2.2

  • This static function returns the angle in degrees of the line from point P to point Q.

    Parameters

    • px: number
    • py: number
    • qx: number
    • qy: number

    Returns number

  • This static function returns the square of the distance from the point P to the finite line segment from point A to point B.

    Parameters

    • px: number
    • py: number
    • ax: number
    • ay: number
    • bx: number
    • by: number

    Returns number

    the euclidean distance.

  • This static function returns the square of the distance from the point P to the point Q.

    Parameters

    • px: number
    • py: number
    • qx: number
    • qy: number

    Returns number

  • This static function is true if two finite straight line segments intersect each other.

    Parameters

    • a1x: number
    • a1y: number
    • a2x: number
    • a2y: number
    • b1x: number
    • b1y: number
    • b2x: number
    • b2y: number

    Returns boolean

    True if the two given finite line segments intersect with each other, false otherwise.

    since

    2.2

  • This static function can be used to read in a Point from a string that was produced by Point.stringify.

    go.Point.parse("1 2") produces the Point new go.Point(1, 2).

    Parameters

    • str: string

    Returns Point

  • This static function can be used to write out a Point as a string that can be read by Point.parse.

    go.Point.stringify(new go.Point(1, 2)) produces the string "1 2".

    Parameters

    Returns string

  • This static function returns a function that can be used as a back converter for a Binding to write out a Point's values as numbers with a fixed number of digits after the decimal point.

    This is useful for limiting the size of JSON output and making it more legible. It might also be useful for regression testing.

    Example:

      new go.Binding("location", "loc", go.Point.parse, go.Point.stringifyFixed(2))
    

    Parameters

    • digits: number

      must be a non-negative integer

    Returns ((val: Point) => string)

    a function that converts a Point to a string without so many decimals

      • (val: Point): string
      • This static function returns a function that can be used as a back converter for a Binding to write out a Point's values as numbers with a fixed number of digits after the decimal point.

        This is useful for limiting the size of JSON output and making it more legible. It might also be useful for regression testing.

        Example:

          new go.Binding("location", "loc", go.Point.parse, go.Point.stringifyFixed(2))
        

        Parameters

        Returns string

        a function that converts a Point to a string without so many decimals

        since

        3.0

    since

    3.0