console input

[zildjohn01]

hi, i have a question about console input. i have tried the various functions such as

fread(&nextchar, 1, 1, stdin);
nextChar = getchar();
nextChar = _fgetchar();
etc...

and all seem to wait until the user presses 'enter' to start returning the chars to my program. is there any way to 1) turn off echoing input to the output, and 2) get chars before enter is pressed?

 

[chipperMDW]

Yup.

But both those things require you to control the terminal device itself, and there's no standard interface for doing that in C. So to get a specific answer, you'll have to describe your platform.

 

[zildjohn01]

o. i was hoping for something portable or within the c standard, but oh well. thanks.