GUI: Scripts which catch keyboard interrupt with inputs should work

[John-Holt-Tessella]

As a developer I want to write a script such that I catch the keyboard interrupt (ctrl + c) and then can offer an option to the user. Currently this does not work because either the input is ignored or the prompt is not returned to the user. (Only in GUI it works in a console)

Test script:

try:
    while True: pass
except KeyboardInterrupt:
    import time
    time.sleep(0.2)  # comment line for different effect
    a = input("Type something")
    print("You wrote {}".format(a))

If sleep line is in then prompt is not returned, if it is not then input is not taken.

Acceptance Criteria

• Script runs correctly (having a sleep in is acceptable)
• Reflectometry script is removed (ctrl + c line 237 in scripts technique/reflectometry/base.py)

Notes

• Similar to #5160 but this might have been fixed

[DominicOram]

Is this related to https://github.com/ISISComputingGroup/IBEX/issues/5160?

[John-Holt-Tessella]

Yes but it is different, this is not ctrl +c in the middle of an input.