im creating an application using curses and im using the getch() function to get keyboard input, the problem is, that it is painfully slow, it takes several seconds to detect the pressed key and normally i have to press the key several times so the program actually detects it, there is a way to make getch() respond instantly (or at least at a usable speed)?
the problem was that that i was evaluating the output of getch() in every if statement inside my main loop instead of defining it as a variable inside the loop and checking that variable