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Unlike most other GUI tools, Visual LANSA implements a repository-based approach. As always, the LANSA repository centralizes the common business information about your applications.

This means that you get all the benefits characteristic of LANSA application development in addition to GUI capabilities:

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Think about how you maintain applications in these different environments. For example, what would you need to do if the length of the employee number is changed?
 
Intelligent Lists, Grids and Graphs Are Based on the Repository
The power of the advanced list, tree view, grid and graph components in Visual LANSA is also based on the repository. You define the data to be shown in these components simply by dragging fields to them. For instance you create a list of employee numbers by dragging the employee number field to a list component.
Visual Styles
The appearance of Visual LANSA components is controlled by visual style components. A visual style component controls the appearance of the application including colors, fonts and 3D effects.
You can set one visual style to govern your entire application. This ensures absolute uniformity and makes it possible to make global changes by changing a single setting. Visual styles are multilingual so that you can define different settings for different languages in one style.
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