[Dev-C++] using getch with cin.

Hi everyone.

I wrote a function using dev c that overloads the insertion operator for a
class. I used the getch() function within this function and everything
worked fine.

However, when I took this code to college the next day and compiled it under
MS Vusual C++ it caused all sorts of problems. My lecturer said this was to
do with getch using different buffers that cin.

Is there a way to make sure that getch will work with cin on all compilers?

Thanks in advance.

Chris