Re: getch problems

[Thomas E. Dickey]

On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Anthony Jason Ridgway wrote:

> For some reason whenever I use the getch() function in the ncurses5.2
> library for input, the screen just goes blank when the program is
> first run.  This is a correctable problem?  Am I doing something
> wrong?

not a bug - curses (and ncurses) clear the display when they initialize
it.  The exception to that rule is if you're using the one-line filtering
mode (there's an example of that in ncurses/test/filter.c).

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