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

From a man page (emphasis added):

The timeout and wtimeout routines set blocking or non-blocking read for a given window. If delay is negative, blocking read is used (i.e., waits indefinitely for input).