Non-blocking getch(), ncurses

Question

I\'m having some problems getting ncurses\' getch() to block. Default operation seems to be non-blocking (or have I missed some initialization)? I would like it to work like

Answer 1

You need to call initscr() or newterm() to initialize curses before it will work. This works fine for me:

#include 

int main() {
    WINDOW *w;
    char c;

    w = initscr();
    timeout(3000);
    c = getch();
    endwin();

    printf("received %c (%d)\n", c, (int) c);
}