How to disable echo in windows console?

Question

How do I disable echo in a windows console C application?

I don't really want to capture characters with _getch (I still want Ctrl-C) to work. Besides _getch only seems to disable echo for cmd but not in cygwin.

There must be a way to redirect the pipe or modify the console settings.

Answer 1

Maybe SetConsoleMode (stolen from codeguru) :

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <windows.h>


int main()
{
    HANDLE hStdin = GetStdHandle(STD_INPUT_HANDLE); 
    DWORD mode = 0;
    GetConsoleMode(hStdin, &mode);
    SetConsoleMode(hStdin, mode & (~ENABLE_ECHO_INPUT));

    std::string s;
    std::getline(std::cin, s);

    std::cout << s << "\n";
    return 0;
}//main