Capture stdin input without echoing characters to screen

Question

I have a very simple code:

char character;    
std::cin >> character;

However, I would like it to behave as follow:

1. Don't echo to console the character I type
2. std::cin should return (unblock) right away when a character is pressed without having to press the Enter key

Is this possible? I also have access to Qt.

Answer 1

This is going to be platform dependent, but you can use

getch() which is part of conio.h if you're on windows

or

getch() as part of curses.h if you're on *nix

References

• http://opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xcurses/curses.h.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conio.h