Scrolling windows are everywhere! You find them on lookup windows, line items on invoices, line items on purchase orders, distribution screens, kit components, accounting periods, units of measure, they're everywhere! Very often, when you are working with a scrolling window, you are working with a range. If you are making a list of those things to really master when working with Dexterity, ranges are number one, scrolling windows are number two.
First, what is a scrolling window? Simply put, it is the grid on a window. It usually presents itself as rows and columns, but it has much more ability than that. We have been told that a Dexterity scrolling window is like nothing else. You cannot compare it with VB, Java, COBOL, nothing.
Scrolling windows come in three flavors:
BrowseOnly
Editable
AddsAllowed
Before we delve into the different scrolling window sections, let's go over some characteristics common to them all. The following screenshot shows a typical scrolling window...