Obtaining Size Of Graphical Objects

Question

I have created a panel, say Panel[""]. I want to know its size/dimensions. Is there any built-in function for doing that?

Do you want to interpret a Panel object as an image? It is not a good idea because Panel is a kind of dynamic expression in Mathematica. Only "static" objects have dimensions and size (for example, Image).
The problem here is pretty much the same as in Computing the bounding boxes for Text objects.

VLC · Answer 1 · 2012-12-19 18:54:15Z

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You could get the size of the rasterized panel:

Rasterize[Panel[""]][[2]]

ImageSize -> {18, 33}

Rasterize[Panel["What is my size?"]][[2]]

ImageSize -> {97, 33}

enter image description here

edited Dec 19 '12 at 18:54

answered Dec 19 '12 at 18:37

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	Does this operation Resize the actual panel ? – santhosh Dec 19 '12 at 18:48
	@santhosh I don't think so. Look at the picture above. – VLC Dec 19 '12 at 18:54

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