Re: Can you use getch() without all the other stuff?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 24 Dec 2007, Steve Litt wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Is there a way to use ncurse's getch() without loading up all the other
> ncurses stuff? I'd like to read raw (I'd really like to be able to read
> scancodes but I don't think getch() does that), but without the memory leaks
> and overhead of screen manipulation.

no - I've thought about disentangling it, but there's the problem of
what to do with the refresh functionality that's called as a side-effect.

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