setupAboutDialog();

    // init UI signals

    // menu signals

    QObject::connect(ui->actionHelpAbout, &QAction::triggered,

              &aboutDialog, &QWidget::show);

    QObject::connect(ui->actionExportCsv, &QAction::triggered,

                     this, &MainWindow::onExportCsv);

    QObject::connect(ui->actionQuit, &QAction::triggered,

                     this, &MainWindow::close);

    QObject::connect(&portControl, &PortControl::portToggled,

                     this, &MainWindow::onPortToggled);

    QObject::connect(&portControl, &PortControl::skipByteRequested,

                     this, &MainWindow::skipByte);

    QObject::connect(ui->spNumOfSamples, SELECT<int>::OVERLOAD_OF(&QSpinBox::valueChanged),

                     this, &MainWindow::onNumOfSamplesChanged);

    QObject::connect(ui->cbAutoScale, &QCheckBox::toggled,

                     this, &MainWindow::onAutoScaleChecked);

    QObject::connect(ui->spYmin, SIGNAL(valueChanged(double)),

                     this, SLOT(onYScaleChanged()));

    QObject::connect(ui->spYmax, SIGNAL(valueChanged(double)),

                     this, SLOT(onYScaleChanged()));

    QObject::connect(ui->actionClear, SIGNAL(triggered(bool)),

                     this, SLOT(clearPlot()));

    // setup number of channels spinbox

    QObject::connect(ui->spNumOfChannels,

                     SELECT<int>::OVERLOAD_OF(&QSpinBox::valueChanged),

                     this, &MainWindow::onNumOfChannelsChanged);

    // setup number format buttons

    numberFormatButtons.addButton(ui->rbUint8,  NumberFormat_uint8);

    numberFormatButtons.addButton(ui->rbUint16, NumberFormat_uint16);

    numberFormatButtons.addButton(ui->rbUint32, NumberFormat_uint32);

    numberFormatButtons.addButton(ui->rbInt8,   NumberFormat_int8);

    numberFormatButtons.addButton(ui->rbInt16,  NumberFormat_int16);

    numberFormatButtons.addButton(ui->rbInt32,  NumberFormat_int32);

    numberFormatButtons.addButton(ui->rbFloat,  NumberFormat_float);

    numberFormatButtons.addButton(ui->rbASCII,  NumberFormat_ASCII);

    QObject::connect(&numberFormatButtons, SIGNAL(buttonToggled(int, bool)),

                     this, SLOT(onNumberFormatButtonToggled(int, bool)));

    // init port signals

    QObject::connect(&(this->serialPort), SIGNAL(error(QSerialPort::SerialPortError)),

                     this, SLOT(onPortError(QSerialPort::SerialPortError)));

    // set limits for axis limit boxes

    ui->spYmin->setRange((-1) * std::numeric_limits<double>::max(),

                         std::numeric_limits<double>::max());

    ui->spYmax->setRange((-1) * std::numeric_limits<double>::max(),

                         std::numeric_limits<double>::max());

    // init data arrays and plot

    numOfSamples = ui->spNumOfSamples->value();

    numOfChannels = 1;

    dataX.resize(numOfSamples);

    for (int i = 0; i < dataX.size(); i++)

    {

        dataX[i] = i;

    }

    // init channel data and curve list

    for (unsigned int i = 0; i < numOfChannels; i++)

    {

        channelsData.append(DataArray(numOfSamples, 0.0));

        curves.append(new QwtPlotCurve());

        curves[i]->setSamples(dataX, channelsData[i]);

        curves[i]->setPen(makeColor(i));

        curves[i]->attach(ui->plot);

    }

    // init number format

    if (numberFormatButtons.checkedId() >= 0)

    {

        selectNumberFormat((NumberFormat) numberFormatButtons.checkedId());

    }

    else

    {

        selectNumberFormat(NumberFormat_uint8);

    }

    // init text view

    ui->ptTextView->setMaximumBlockCount(10000);

    QObject::connect(ui->pbClearTextView, &QPushButton::clicked,

                     ui->ptTextView, &QPlainTextEdit::clear);

    // Init sps (sample per second) counter

    sampleCount = 0;

    spsLabel.setText("0sps");

    spsLabel.setToolTip("samples per second (total of all channels)");

    ui->statusBar->addPermanentWidget(&spsLabel);

    spsTimer.start(SPS_UPDATE_TIMEOUT * 1000);

    QObject::connect(&spsTimer, &QTimer::timeout,

                     this, &MainWindow::spsTimerTimeout);

    // Init demo mode

    demoCount = 0;

    demoTimer.setInterval(100);

    QObject::connect(&demoTimer, &QTimer::timeout,

                     this, &MainWindow::demoTimerTimeout);

    QObject::connect(ui->actionDemoMode, &QAction::toggled,

                     this, &MainWindow::enableDemo);

    {   // init demo indicator

        QwtText demoText(" DEMO RUNNING ");  // looks better with spaces

        demoText.setColor(QColor("white"));

        demoText.setBackgroundBrush(Qt::darkRed);

        demoText.setBorderRadius(4);

        demoText.setRenderFlags(Qt::AlignLeft | Qt::AlignTop);

        demoIndicator.setText(demoText);

        demoIndicator.hide();

        demoIndicator.attach(ui->plot);

    }

}

MainWindow::~MainWindow()

{

    for (auto curve : curves)

    {

        delete curve;

    }

    if (serialPort.isOpen())

    {

        serialPort.close();

    }

    delete ui;

}

void MainWindow::setupAboutDialog()

{

    Ui_AboutDialog uiAboutDialog;

    uiAboutDialog.setupUi(&aboutDialog);

    QObject::connect(uiAboutDialog.pbAboutQt, &QPushButton::clicked,

                     [](){ QApplication::aboutQt();});

    QString aboutText = uiAboutDialog.lbAbout->text();

    aboutText.replace("$VERSION_STRING$", VERSION_STRING);

    aboutText.replace("$VERSION_REVISION$", VERSION_REVISION);

    uiAboutDialog.lbAbout->setText(aboutText);

}

void MainWindow::onPortToggled(bool open)

{

    // make sure demo mode is disabled

    if (open && isDemoRunning()) enableDemo(false);

    ui->actionDemoMode->setEnabled(!open);

}

void MainWindow::onDataReady()

{

    if (!ui->actionPause->isChecked())

    {

        // a package is a set of channel data like {CHAN0_SAMPLE, CHAN1_SAMPLE...}

        int packageSize = sampleSize * numOfChannels;

        int bytesAvailable = serialPort.bytesAvailable();

        if (bytesAvailable > 0 && skipByteRequested)

        {

            serialPort.read(1);

            skipByteRequested = false;

            bytesAvailable--;

        }

        if (bytesAvailable < packageSize)

        {

            return;

        }

        else

        {

            int numOfPackagesToRead =

                (bytesAvailable - (bytesAvailable % packageSize)) / packageSize;

            QVector<DataArray> channelSamples(numOfChannels);

            for (unsigned int ci = 0; ci < numOfChannels; ci++)

            {

                channelSamples[ci].resize(numOfPackagesToRead);