The one thing that confuses the most people in the beginning is the Signal & Slot mechanism of Qt. But it’s actually not that difficult to understand. In general Signals & Slots are used to loosely connect classes. Illustrated by the keyword emit
, Signals are used to broadcast a message to all connected Slots. If no Slots are connected, the message "is lost in the wild". So a connection between Signals & Slots is like a TCP/IP connection with a few exceptions, but this metaphor will help you to get the principle. A Signal is an outgoing port and a Slot is an input only port and a Signal can be connected to multiple Slots.
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