[Solved] Need Help With Ncurses and FPC

[NewbieToPascal]

I'm trying to make a really simple program using FPC and ncurses, it basic read a Char typed by the user and prints it back. The problem is the program does not show what the user wrote when a key is pressed and do not show the Char the user wrote.

The code is the fowling

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1. uses ncurses;
2. var ch : char;
3. begin
4.   ncurses.initscr;
5.   ncurses.raw;
6.   ncurses.keypad(stdscr, True);
7.   ncurses.noecho;
8.   ch :='0';
9.   ncurses.printw('Type something: ');
10.   ncurses.refresh;
11.   ReadLn(ch);
12.   ncurses.printw('You typed: ', ch);
13.   ncurses.refresh;
14.   ReadLn;
15.   ncurses.endwin;
16. end.    

The result is in the attachment picture

[NewbieToPascal]

Solved using Bing Copilot (what great time to be alive)

In line 12, it reads

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1.   ncurses.printw('You typed: ', ch);

it should be

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1.   ncurses.printw('You typed: %c', ch);

And to the char appear while the user is typing it needs to be added to the screen as in the fowlling

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1. uses ncurses;
2. var ch : char;
3.   c : Integer;
4. begin
5.   ncurses.initscr;
6.   ncurses.raw;
7.   ncurses.keypad(stdscr, True);
8.   ncurses.noecho;
9.   ch :='0';
10.   ncurses.printw('Type something: ');
11.   ncurses.refresh;
12.   c:=getch;
13.   ch:=Chr(c);
14.   ncurses.addch(c); //this line adds the char the user typed to the screen
15.   ncurses.refresh();
16.   napms(2000);
17.   clear();
18.   ncurses.printw('You typed: %c', ch);
19.   ncurses.refresh;
20.   ReadLn;
21.   ncurses.endwin;
22. end.      

[Thaddy]

Nice, but I am curious why you used ncurses? That is usually not necessary in your particular case.
Note that I am a big fan of ncurses, but not here.

[NewbieToPascal]

Nice, but I am curious why you used ncurses? That is usually not necessary in your particular case.
Note that I am a big fan of ncurses, but not here.

Just to learn ncurses. I got the idea to make a TUI calculator as a learning task. I could easier do it using Lazarus, with all forms and buttons, but it would not be challenge enough.

BTW: I'm using this How To: https://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/
 
What library do you think is the "best" for TUI software ?

By "best" I meant specially open source and cross platform. I only know about Ncurses and Free Vision