Q_OBJECT

public:

    explicit MainWindow(QWidget *parent = 0);

    ~MainWindow();

private:

    enum NumberFormat

    {

        NumberFormat_uint8,

        NumberFormat_uint16,

        NumberFormat_uint32,

        NumberFormat_int8,

        NumberFormat_int16,

        NumberFormat_int32,

        NumberFormat_float,

        NumberFormat_ASCII

    };

    Ui::MainWindow *ui;

    QButtonGroup numberFormatButtons;

    QDialog aboutDialog;

    void setupAboutDialog();

    QSerialPort serialPort;

    unsigned int numOfSamples;

    unsigned int numOfChannels;

    QList<QwtPlotCurve*> curves;

    typedef QVector<double> DataArray;

    DataArray dataX;   // array that simply contains numbers 0..numberOfSamples

    QList<DataArray> channelsData;

    // `data` contains channel specific data

    void addChannelData(unsigned int channel, DataArray data);

    NumberFormat numberFormat;

    unsigned int sampleSize; // number of bytes in the selected number format

    double (MainWindow::*readSample)();

    // note that serialPort should already have enough bytes present

    template<typename T> double readSampleAs();

    bool skipByteRequested;

    // demo

    QTimer demoTimer;

    int demoCount;