getchar()

[Burkhard Kirste]

edrury at 3cpu.UUCP (Ed Drury) writes:

>In article <5CTOV6E at methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de> kirste at methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de (Burkhard Kirste) writes:
>>storm at cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes:
>>
>>>>	Your problem is that getchar() does not recognize ANY input until
>>>>you hit Enter.
>
> oh yes, much more complicated, you have to use #include <curses.h>
                                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>rather than #include <conio.h> -- but the question as I understand
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Well yes, but you forgot to mention that this is in no way all you
would have to do under Unix. You would have to call initscr() in the
beginning, endwin() in the end, and you have to replace your printf's
by printw's. And you have to link the curses library, which gives
you a lot of overhead if getch() is really all you need.

Alternatively, you can avoid the whole curses stuff and change the
terminal settings via ioctl(...) etc.
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