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new 1.js

import { Point } from 'yfiles';

// Create a new point
const p1 = new Point(-5, 2)
// Create another point somewhere else
const p2 = new Point(23, 42)

console.log(`Point 1 is at (${p1.X},${p1.Y}), point 2 is at (${p2.X},${p2.y})`)

// Subtract one point from the other to get a vector between them
// which is also represented as a Point
const v = p2.subtract(p1)

// Point offers a few handy properties when interpreting it as a vector
console.log(`VectorLength: ${v.vectorLength}`)
// VectorLength in this case is equivalent to p1.distanceTo(p2):
console.log(`Distance: ${p1.distanceTo(p2)}`)

console.log(`IsHorizontalVector: ${v.isHorizontalVector}`)
console.log(`IsVerticalVector: ${v.isVerticalVector}`)
console.log(`Normalized: ${v.normalized}`)

const halfLength = v.multiply(0.2).vectorLength
const doubleLength = v.multiply(2).vectorLength

console.log(`Original vector: ${v.vectorLength}`)
console.log(`Half-length vector: ${halfLength}`)
console.log(`Double-length vector: ${doubleLength}`)