2.1.1 You Work in a Graphical Editor

You create the interface of your components graphically by dragging controls and other components from the repository to a form. The form represents a window of the application when it is running. This means that you can see what your application will look like while you are developing it.

Working in a graphical environment can significantly shorten the time you spend creating an application. This is because you create much of the application using drag and drop so there is less code to write.

To understand what a difference working in the graphical development environment makes, try it out. If you don't have a Visual LANSA license, you can download a Free trial version of LANSA (with a 60 day license) and try it out.