getch not working on HP-UX

[Orauser]

Hi Experts,

I need to use getch in my application for masking the password. I am using getch from curses.h.

Below is the my code:

#include
#include

using namespace std;

int main()
{

cout<<"\nBefore getch";

getch();

cout<<"\nafter getch";

return 0;
}

I am compiling using aCC:

aCC -O -mt -AA +Z +eh +DAportable -w -Wc,-ansi_for_scope,off -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE -D_INCLUDE_STDC_A1_SOURCE -D_INCLUDE__STDC_A1_SOURCE -D_UNIX_ -D_REENTRANT -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS test.cpp -lcurses

It is compiling successfully but when i am running a.out then it is not waiting for the input and just printing the two statements and program ends.

bash-2.04$ a.out

Before getch
after getchbash-2.04$

Please guide me how to make getch() working on HP.

Thanks in advance for your help

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

From the 'getch(3X)' manpages:

int getch(void);

Regards!

...JRF...

[Orauser]

Thanks for your reply James but taking the output of getch in some variable is also not working.

nt main()
{

cout<<"\nBefore getch";

int val = getch();

cout<<"\nafter getch";

return 0;
}

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi (again):

I meant to suggest that if you capture the character returned by 'getch()' then you need to output whatever you captured.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Dennis Handly]

>JRF: I meant to suggest that if you capture the character returned by 'getch()' then you need to output whatever you captured.

I get -1, possibly because?
If in nodelay mode and no data is available, ERR is returned.
#include
#include
int main() {
printf("Before getch:");
int char_in = getch();
printf("\nGot: %.2x|%c\n", (unsigned char)char_in, char_in);
}

[Orauser]

Hi James and Dennis,

Thanks a lot for your timely help!

I am getting below output after running your code snippet that displays the output of getch

bash-2.04$ a.out
Before getch:
Got: ff|ÿ
bash-2.04$

Please suggest me some way on how to fix this. Do i need to set some delay?

Regards

[Dennis Handly]

>Please suggest me some way on how to fix this.

You are actually going to have to read the curses documentation. A good starting point would be curses_intro(3X).

I assume you need to tell curses what window or terminal to read from, possibly these:
initscr() or newterm() to initialise Curses and restores these settings when endwin()

>I need to use getch in my application for masking the password.

Perhaps you should toss getch and just turn on and off echoing?