This help file describes jprompt version 4.1/4.4.
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Invoking jprompt brings up a panel displaying text with an entry field for the user to type a response into and OK and Cancel buttons. The windowmanager title will be title. When the user clicks OK, jprompt exits and writes what the user typed to standard output. If the user clicks Cancel, jprompt exits and, by default, writes nothing (except a newline) to standard output.
If -show char is specified, and char is not an empty string, then the entry will not display characters typed; the first character of char will be displayed in their place. This is useful for requesting passwords. (Warning: This doesn't work under versions of Tk prior to 4.0.)
If -history name is specified, values entered will be stored (persistently) in the history list named name; this lets users easily reuse previously entered values.
The value printed on Cancel can be specified, and there are a few other options not mentioned in this document; for full details, see the documentation for j:prompt in the jprompts.tcl library.
Both text and title are localisable.