[QUESTION]: How can a plugin instantiate a `Point` ?

[atom]

[QUESTION]: How can a plugin instantiate a `Point` ?

[mnquintana]

I might be misunderstanding, but you shouldn't need to instantiate a Point directly – any Atom methods that accept Points also accept arrays of the coordinates, e.g. [0, 140]. Does that cover what you're looking for?

[Byron]

Thanks for getting back to me !
What I need is to use Point methods to aid my own computations. For this to work, I will want to instantiate points myself.

For example, here I set the cursor position, just to use that and obtain a point at the given position later. Doing that works but is more cumbersome than it has to be.

A viable solution could already be to use the constructor directly, such as in new myPointInstance.constructor(0, 1). When looking at my code, I believe this is a viable way to do this.

Even though I am closing this ticket, it might be worth discussing whether utility types should provide a way to be instantiated from plugins as well.

[lee-dohm]

You should be able to get a hold of Atom's Point class (along with many other of Atom's utility classes) by using (in CoffeeScript):

{Point} = require 'atom'

[Byron]

Thank you, this works perfectly.
It's interesting to know and finally understand that the atom instance is not to be confused with the atom module.