I still don't understand what the various combination of arguments will accomplish with this method.  I mean... I can understand the descriptions but the result of using this method is almost never what I would expect or want.

In today's show Steve is trying to create 3 fields all in a single column, let's check in and see how he's doing!

[Sigh...] Not good marge, not good at all.
I've tried:

 view.addField('custpage_123', 'text', '123', null).setLayoutType('startrow', 'none');  view.addField('custpage_456', 'text', '456', null).setLayoutType('startrow', 'none');  view.addField('custpage_789', 'text', '789', null).setLayoutType('startrow', 'none');