6.1 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. Even if you do not have a Visual LANSA hardware key, you can create components and have a look at the Visual LANSA work environment. To do this, create a new form called DEMCOM01. (You can create ten forms or other components named DEMCOM01 to DEMCOM10.)