Close application on Ctrl-C.

doc/changelog.txt

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 Changes:
 - gui: Print detected module information in about dialog.
+- gui: Close application on Ctrl-C.
 
 
 6.7 "Friendship" (released 12.4.2011)

linkchecker-gui

@@ -19,10 +19,12 @@
 Check HTML pages for broken links. This is the GUI client.
 """
 import sys
+import signal
 from PyQt4.QtGui import QApplication
 from linkcheck.gui import LinkCheckerMain, get_app_style
 from linkcheck import configuration, drop_privileges, i18n
 
+
 def excepthook (window, etype, evalue, tb):
     """Catch unhandled exceptions."""
     from cStringIO import StringIO
@@ -33,6 +35,12 @@ def excepthook (window, etype, evalue, tb):
     window.error_signal.emit(out.getvalue())
 
 
+def sigint_handler(*args):
+    """Handler for the SIGINT signal."""
+    sys.stderr.write('\r')
+    QApplication.quit()
+
+
 def main (argv=None):
     if argv is None:
         argv = sys.argv
@@ -46,6 +54,7 @@ def main (argv=None):
         url = app.argv()[1]
     else:
         url = u""
+    signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, sigint_handler)
     # use local variable here to avoid garbage collection of the main
     # window before app.exec_() finishes
     window = LinkCheckerMain(url=url)