[Qt-interest] Difference between an Event and signal in QT

[Gordon Schumacher]

Murali Mohan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am a newbie to Qt.
> I would like to know the difference between a Qt event and a Qt signal.
> It would be great of someone can provide some info along with some
> simple samples.

I don't recall the exact line, but it goes something like "Events are
for structural notification, and signals are for semantic information". 
That is, events say things like "someone pushed or released a mouse
button", and signals say "Button XYZ was clicked".