Amazing how sometimes the right answer gets demoted, and answers that “authoritatively” give up get promoted… With a bit of creativity, key_name actually holds the right key to figuring this out, with one caveat – that SHIFT/ALT/CTRL are pressed with other keys at the same time: First, for “normal keys” such as the printable ones, … Read more
You can use the nodelay() function to turn getch() into a non-blocking call, which returns ERR if no key-press is available. If a key-press is available, it is pulled from the input queue, but you can push it back onto the queue if you like with ungetch(). #include <ncurses.h> #include <unistd.h> /* only for sleep() … Read more
You need to have called setlocale(LC_CTYPE, “”); (with a UTF-8 based locale configured) before initializing ncurses. You also need to make sure your ncurses is actually built with wide char support (“ncursesw”) but on modern distros this is the default/only build.
Without the thread-support, you’re out of luck for using curses functions in more than one thread. That’s because most of the curses calls use static or global data. The getch function for instance calls refresh which can update the whole screen—using the global pointers curscr and stdscr. The difference in the thread-support configuration is that … Read more
You need to change your makefile so that the -lncurses directive comes after your object code on the gcc command line, i.e. it needs to generate the command: gcc -W -Wall -Werror -Wextra -I./Includes/. -o Sources/NCurses/ncurses_init.o -c Sources/NCurses/ncurses_init.c -lncurses This is because object files and libraries are linked in order in a single pass.
There’s an ongoing effort for a PDCurses port: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00129.html http://www.projectpluto.com/win32a.htm
[UPDATE] For latest Windows 10 please read useful contribution by @brainslugs83, just below in the comments to this answer. While for versions before Windows 10 Anniversary Update: ANSI.SYS has a restriction that it can run only in the context of the MS-DOS sub-system under Windows 95-Vista. Microsoft KB101875 explains how to enable ANSI.SYS in a … Read more