What is the difference between wgetch() and getch() in ncurses?

Question

I have looked and I can't seem to find this mentioned anywhere.

Answer 1

getch() is equivalent to wgetch(stdscr). The function wgetch does wrefresh of the specified window and then reads input. So getch() would refresh stdscr and then wait for input.

more info here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/22121866/515212