Changeset 7615 in ntrip

Timestamp:

Dec 8, 2015, 9:47:58 AM (8 years ago)

Author:

weber

Message:

Documentation completed

File:

• trunk/BNC/src/bncwindow.cpp (modified) (4 diffs)

trunk/BNC/src/bncwindow.cpp

@@ -949 +949 @@
   _pppWidgets._minObs->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>Select a Minimum Number of Observations per epoch for a PPP solution.</p><p>BNC will only process epochs with observation numbers reaching or exceeding this minimum.</p>"));
 
-  _pppWidgets._minEle->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>Select a Minimum satellite Elevation for observations.</p><p>BNC will ignore an observation if the associated Satellite Elevation does not reach or exceed this minimum.</p><p>Selecting '10 deg' may be an appropriate choise in order to avoid too noisy observations."));
+  _pppWidgets._minEle->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>Select a Minimum satellite Elevation for observations.</p><p>BNC will ignore an observation if the associated Satellite Elevation does not reach or exceed this minimum.</p><p>Selecting '10 deg' may be an appropriate choise in order to avoid too noisy observations.</p>"));
 
   _pppWidgets._lcGPS->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>Specify which kind of GPS observations you want to use and on which kind of ionosphere-free linear combination of GPS observations you want to base ambiguity resolutions.</p><p><ul><li>Specifying 'P3' means that you request BNC to use code data and the so-called P3 ionosphere-free linear combination of code observations.</li><li>'P3&L3' means that you request BNC to use both, code and phase data and the so-called P3 and L3 ionosphere-free linear combination of code and phase observations.</li></ul></p><p>Note that most geodetic receivers support the observation of GPS code and phase data. Hence specifying 'P3&L3' would be a good choice when processing data from such a receiver.</p><p>Specifying 'no' means that you don't want BNC to use GPS data.</p>"));
@@ -1296 +1296 @@
   _sslIgnoreErrorsCheckBox->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>SSL communication may involve queries coming from the Ntrip broadcaster. Tick 'Ignore SSL authorization erros' if you don't want to be bothered with this.</p>"));
   _outWaitSpinBox->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>When feeding a real-time GNSS network engine waiting for synchronized input epoch by epoch, BNC drops whatever is received later than 'Wait for full obs epoch' seconds. A value of 3 to 5 seconds is recommended, depending on the latency of the incoming streams and the delay acceptable to your real-time GNSS network engine or products.</p>"));
-  _outFileLineEdit->setWhatsThis(tr("Specify the full path to a file where synchronized observations are saved in plain ASCII format. Beware that the size of this file can rapidly increase depending on the number of incoming streams."));
-  _outPortLineEdit->setWhatsThis(tr("BNC can produce synchronized observations in a plain ASCII format on your local host through an IP port. Specify a port number here to activate this function."));
-  _outUPortLineEdit->setWhatsThis(tr("BNC can produce unsynchronized observations in a plain ASCII format on your local host through an IP port. Specify a port number here to activate this function."));
-  _ephOutPortLineEdit->setWhatsThis(tr("BNC can produce ephemeris data in RINEX ASCII format on your local host through an IP port. Specify a port number here to activate this function."));
-  _corrPortLineEdit->setWhatsThis(tr("BNC can produce Broadcast Ephemeris Corrections on your local host through an IP port. Specify a port number here to activate this function."));
-  _rnxPathLineEdit->setWhatsThis(tr("Here you specify the path to where the RINEX Observation files will be stored. If the specified directory does not exist, BNC will not create RINEX Observation files."));
-  _ephPathLineEdit->setWhatsThis(tr("Specify the path for saving Broadcast Ephemeris data as RINEX Navigation files. If the specified directory does not exist, BNC will not create RINEX Navigation files."));
-  _corrPathLineEdit->setWhatsThis(tr("Specify a directory for saving Broadcast Ephemeris Correction files. If the specified directory does not exist, BNC will not create the files."));
-  _rnxScrpLineEdit->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>Whenever a RINEX Observation file is saved, you might want to compress, copy or upload it immediately via FTP. BNC allows you to execute a script/batch file to carry out these operations. To do that specify the full path of the script/batch file here. BNC will pass the full RINEX Observation file path to the script as a command line parameter (%1 on Windows systems, $1 onUnix/Linux systems).</p>"));
+  _outFileLineEdit->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>Specify the full path to a file where synchronized observations are saved in plain ASCII format. Beware that the size of this file can rapidly increase depending on the number of incoming streams.</p>"));
+  _outPortLineEdit->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>BNC can produce synchronized observations in a plain ASCII format on your local host through an IP port. Specify a port number here to activate this function.</p>"));
+  _outUPortLineEdit->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>BNC can produce unsynchronized observations in a plain ASCII format on your local host through an IP port. Specify a port number here to activate this function.</p>"));
+  _ephOutPortLineEdit->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>BNC can produce ephemeris data in RINEX ASCII format on your local host through an IP port. Specify a port number here to activate this function.</p>"));
+  _corrPortLineEdit->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>BNC can produce Broadcast Ephemeris Corrections on your local host through an IP port. Specify a port number here to activate this function.</p>"));
+  _rnxPathLineEdit->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>Here you specify the path to where the RINEX Observation files will be stored. If the specified directory does not exist, BNC will not create RINEX Observation files.</p>"));
+  _ephPathLineEdit->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>Specify the path for saving Broadcast Ephemeris data as RINEX Navigation files. If the specified directory does not exist, BNC will not create RINEX Navigation files.</p>"));
+  _corrPathLineEdit->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>Specify a directory for saving Broadcast Ephemeris Correction files. If the specified directory does not exist, BNC will not create the files.</p>"));
+  _rnxScrpLineEdit->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>Whenever a RINEX Observation file is saved, you might want to compress, copy or upload it immediately via FTP. BNC allows you to execute a script/batch file to carry out these operations. To do that specify the full path of the script/batch file here. BNC will pass the full RINEX Observation file path to the script as a command line parameter (%1 on Windows systems, $1 on Unix/Linux/Mac systems).</p>"));
   _rnxSkelLineEdit->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>BNC allows using personal skeleton files that contain the header records you would like to include. You can derive a personal RINEX header skeleton file from the information given in an up to date sitelog.</p><p>A file in the RINEX Observations 'Directory' with a 'Skeleton extension' suffix is interpreted by BNC as a personal RINEX header skeleton file for the corresponding stream.</p>"));
-  _rnxFileCheckBox->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>Tick check box 'Skeleton mandatory' in case you want that RINEX files are only produced if skeleton files are available for BNC. If no skeleton file is available for a particular source then no RINEX observation file will be produced from the affected stream.</p><p>Note that a skeleton file contains RINEX header information such as receiver and antenna types. In case of stream conversion to RINEX Version 3 a skeleton file should also contain information on potentially available observation types. A missing skeleton file will therefore enforce BNC to only save a default set of RINEX 3 observation types."));
+  _rnxFileCheckBox->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>Tick check box 'Skeleton mandatory' in case you want that RINEX files are only produced if skeleton files are available for BNC. If no skeleton file is available for a particular source then no RINEX observation file will be produced from the affected stream.</p><p>Note that a skeleton file contains RINEX header information such as receiver and antenna types. In case of stream conversion to RINEX Version 3 a skeleton file should also contain information on potentially available observation types. A missing skeleton file will therefore enforce BNC to only save a default set of RINEX 3 observation types.</p>"));
   _rnxAppendCheckBox->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>When BNC is started, new files are created by default and any existing files with the same name will be overwritten. However, users might want to append already existing files following a restart of BNC, a system crash or when BNC crashed. Tick 'Append files' to continue with existing files and keep what has been recorded so far.</p>"));
   _autoStartCheckBox->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>Tick 'Auto start' for auto-start of BNC at startup time in window mode with preassigned processing options.</p>"));
@@ -1319 +1319 @@
   _adviseRecoSpinBox->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>Following a stream outage or a longer series of bad observations, an advisory note is generated when valid observations are received again throughout the 'Recovery threshold' time span. A value of about 5min (default) is recommended.</p><p>A value of zero '0' means that for any stream recovery, however short, BNC immediately generates an advisory note.</p>"));
   _adviseFailSpinBox->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>An advisory note is generated when no (or only corrupted) observations are seen throughout the 'Failure threshold' time span. A value of 15 min (default) is recommended.</p><p>A value of zero '0' means that for any stream failure, however short, BNC immediately generates an advisory note.</p>"));
-  _logFileLineEdit->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>Records of BNC's activities are shown in the 'Log' tab on the bottom of this window. They can be saved into a file when a valid path is specified in the 'Logfile (full path)' field.</p><p>The logfile name will automatically be extended by a string '_YYMMDD' carrying the current date."));
+  _logFileLineEdit->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>Records of BNC's activities are shown in the 'Log' tab on the bottom of this window. They can be saved into a file when a valid path is specified in the 'Logfile (full path)' field.</p><p>The logfile name will automatically be extended by a string '_YYMMDD' carrying the current date.</p>"));
   _adviseScriptLineEdit->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>Specify the full path to a script or batch file to handle advisory notes generated in the event of corrupted streams or stream outages. The affected mountpoint and one of the comments 'Begin_Outage', 'End_Outage', 'Begin_Corrupted', or 'End_Corrupted' are passed on to the script as command line parameters.</p><p>The script may have the task to send the advisory notes by email to BNC's operator and/or to the affected stream provider.</p><p>An empty option field (default) or invalid path means that you don't want to use this option.</p>"));
   _miscIntrComboBox->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>BNC can average latencies per stream over a certain period of GPS time. The resulting mean latencies are recorded in the 'Log' tab at the end of each 'Log latency' interval together with results of a statistical evaluation (approximate number of covered epochs, data gaps).</p><p>Select a 'Log latency' interval or select the empty option field if you do not want BNC to log latencies and statistical information.</p>"));
   _mountPointsTable->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>Streams selected for retrieval are listed in the 'Streams' section. Clicking on 'Add Stream' button will open a window that allows the user to select data streams from an Ntrip broadcaster according to their mountpoints. To remove a stream from the 'Streams' list, highlight it by clicking on it and hit the 'Delete Stream' button. You can also remove multiple streams by highlighting them using +Shift and +Ctrl.</p><p>BNC automatically allocates one of its internal decoders to a stream based on the stream's 'format' as given in the sourcetable. BNC allows users to change this selection by editing the decoder string. Double click on the 'decoder' field, enter your preferred decoder and then hit Enter. The accepted decoder strings are 'RTCM_2.x', 'RTCM_3.x' and 'RTNET'.</p><p>In case you need to log the raw data as is, BNC allows users to by-pass its decoders and directly save the input in daily log files. To do this specify the decoder string as 'ZERO'.</p><p>BNC can also retrieve streams from virtual reference stations (VRS). VRS streams are indicated by a 'yes' in the 'nmea' column. To initiate these streams, the approximate latitude/longitude rover position is sent to the Ntrip broadcaster together with an approximation for the height. The default values for latitude and longitude can be change according to your requirement. Double click on 'lat' and 'long' fields, enter the values you wish to send and then hit Enter.</p>"));
-  _log->setWhatsThis(tr("Records of BNC's activities are shown in the 'Log' tab. The message log covers the communication status between BNC and the Ntrip broadcaster as well as any problems that occur in the communication link, stream availability, stream delay, stream conversion etc."));
-  _bncFigure->setWhatsThis(tr("The bandwidth consumtion per stream is shown in the 'Throughput' tab in bits per second (bps) or kilo bits per second (kbps)."));
-  _bncFigureLate->setWhatsThis(tr("The individual latency of observations in each incoming stream is shown in the 'Latency' tab. Streams not carrying observations (i.e. those providing only broadcast ephemeris messages) are not considered here. Note that the calculation of correct latencies requires the clock of the host computer to be properly synchronized."));
-  _ephV3CheckBox->setWhatsThis(tr("The default format for output of RINEX Navigation data containing Broadcast Ephemeris is RINEX Version 2. Select 'Version 3' if you want to output the ephemeris in RINEX Version 3 format."));
+  _log->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>Records of BNC's activities are shown in the 'Log' tab. The message log covers the communication status between BNC and the Ntrip broadcaster as well as any problems that occur in the communication link, stream availability, stream delay, stream conversion etc.</p>"));
+  _bncFigure->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>The bandwidth consumtion per stream is shown in the 'Throughput' tab in bits per second (bps) or kilo bits per second (kbps).</p>"));
+  _bncFigureLate->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>The individual latency of observations in each incoming stream is shown in the 'Latency' tab. Streams not carrying observations (i.e. those providing only broadcast ephemeris messages) are not considered here. Note that the calculation of correct latencies requires the clock of the host computer to be properly synchronized.</p>"));
+  _ephV3CheckBox->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>The default format for output of RINEX Navigation data containing Broadcast Ephemeris is RINEX Version 2. Select 'Version 3' if you want to output the ephemeris in RINEX Version 3 format.</p>"));
   _rnxV3filenameCheckBox->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>Tick 'Version 3 filenames' to let BNC create so-called extended filenames following the RINEX Version 3 standard.</p><p>Default is an empty check box, meaning to create filenames following the RINEX Version 2 standard although the file contents is saved in RINEX Version 3 format.</p>"));
   _ephV3filenameCheckBox->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>Tick 'Version 3 filenames' to let BNC create so-called extended filenames following the RINEX Version 3 standard.</p><p>Default is an empty check box, meaning to create filenames following the RINEX Version 2 standard although the file contents is saved in RINEX Version 3 format.</p>"));
-  _rnxV3CheckBox->setWhatsThis(tr("The default format for RINEX Observation files is RINEX Version 2. Select 'Version 3' if you want to save the observations in RINEX Version 3 format."));
+  _rnxV3CheckBox->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>The default format for RINEX Observation files is RINEX Version 2. Select 'Version 3' if you want to save the observations in RINEX Version 3 format.</p>"));
 
   _rnxV2Priority->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>Specify a priority list of characters defining signal attributes as defined in RINEX Version 3. Priorities will be used to map observations with RINEX Version 3 attributes from incoming streams to Version 2. The underscore character '_' stands for undefined attributes. A question mark '?' can be used as wildcard which represents any one character.</p><p>Signal priorities can be specified either as equal for all systems or system specifics. The following are example priority strings:</li><ul><li>'CWPX_?' (Same signal priorities valid for all systems)</li><li>'G:CWPX_? R:PCX_? E:CPX_?' (Specific signal priorities for GPS, GLONASS and Galileo system)</li></ul>Default is priority list 'CWPX_?'.</p>"));
 
   _miscMountLineEdit->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>Specify a mountpoint to apply any of the options shown below. Enter 'ALL' if you want to apply these options to all configured streams.</p><p>An empty option field (default) means that you don't want BNC to apply any of these options.</p>"));
-  _miscPortLineEdit->setWhatsThis(tr("BNC can output an incoming stream through a TCP/IP port of your local host. Specify a port number here to activate this function."));
+  _miscPortLineEdit->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>BNC can output an incoming stream through a TCP/IP port of your local host. Specify a port number here to activate this function.</p>"));
   _miscScanRTCMCheckBox->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>Tick 'Scan RTCM' to log the numbers of incomming message types as well as contained antenna coordinates, antenna heigt, and antenna descriptor.</p><p>In case of RTCM Version 3 MSM streams, BNC will also log contained RINEX Version 3 observation types.</p>."));
   _serialMountPointLineEdit->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>Enter a 'Mountpoint' to forward the corresponding stream to a serial connected receiver.</p><p>Depending on the stream contents the receiver may use it for Differential GNSS, Precise Point Positioning or any other purpose supported by the firmware.</p>"));
@@ -1349 +1349 @@
   _reqcActionComboBox->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>BNC allows to 'Edit or Concatenate' RINEX v2 or v3 files or to perform a quality check and 'Analyze' the data following UNAVCO's famous 'teqc' program.</p>"));
   _reqcEditOptionButton->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>Specify options for editing RINEX v2 or v3 files.</p>"));
-  _bncFigurePPP->setWhatsThis(tr("PPP time series of North (red), East (green) and Up (blue) coordinate components are shown in the 'PPP Plot' tab when the corresponting option is selected above. Values are either referred to an XYZ reference coordinate (if specified) or referred to the first estimated set of coordinate compoments. The sliding PPP time series window covers the period of the latest 5 minutes."));
-
-  _cmbTable->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>BNC allows to process several orbit and clock corrections streams in real-time to produce, encode, upload and save a combination of correctors coming from various providers. Hit the 'Add Row' button, double click on the 'Mountpoint' field to enter a Broadcast Ephemeris corrections mountpoint from the 'Streams' section below and hit Enter. Then double click on the 'AC Name' field to enter your choice of an abbreviation for the Analysis Center (AC) providing the stream. Finally, double click on the 'Weight' field to enter the weight to be applied for this stream in the combination.</p><p>Note that the orbit information in the final combination stream is just copied from one of the incoming streams. The stream used for providing the orbits may vary over time: if the orbit providing stream has an outage then BNC switches to the next remaining stream for getting hold of the orbit information.</p><p>The combination process requires Broadcast Ephemeris. Besides the orbit and clock corrections stream(s) BNC should therefore pull a stream carrying Broadcast Ephemeris in the form of RTCM Version 3 messages.</p><p>It is possible to specify only one Broadcast Ephemeris corrections stream in the combination table. Instead of combining corrections BNC will then merge them with Broadcast Ephemeris to save results in SP3 and/or Clock RINEX format."));
+  _bncFigurePPP->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>PPP time series of North (red), East (green) and Up (blue) coordinate components are shown in the 'PPP Plot' tab when the corresponting option is selected above. Values are either referred to an XYZ reference coordinate (if specified) or referred to the first estimated set of coordinate compoments. The sliding PPP time series window covers the period of the latest 5 minutes.</p>"));
+
+  _cmbTable->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>BNC allows to process several orbit and clock corrections streams in real-time to produce, encode, upload and save a combination of correctors coming from various providers. Hit the 'Add Row' button, double click on the 'Mountpoint' field to enter a Broadcast Ephemeris corrections mountpoint from the 'Streams' section below and hit Enter. Then double click on the 'AC Name' field to enter your choice of an abbreviation for the Analysis Center (AC) providing the stream. Finally, double click on the 'Weight' field to enter the weight to be applied for this stream in the combination.</p><p>Note that the orbit information in the final combination stream is just copied from one of the incoming streams. The stream used for providing the orbits may vary over time: if the orbit providing stream has an outage then BNC switches to the next remaining stream for getting hold of the orbit information.</p><p>The combination process requires Broadcast Ephemeris. Besides the orbit and clock corrections stream(s) BNC should therefore pull a stream carrying Broadcast Ephemeris in the form of RTCM Version 3 messages.</p><p>It is possible to specify only one Broadcast Ephemeris corrections stream in the combination table. Instead of combining corrections BNC will then merge them with Broadcast Ephemeris to save results in SP3 and/or Clock RINEX format.</p>"));
 
   _cmbMaxresLineEdit->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>BNC combines all incoming clocks according to specified weights. Individual clock estimates that differ by more than 'Maximal Residuum' meters from the average of all clocks will be ignored.<p></p>It is suggested to specify a value of about 0.2 m for the Kalman filter combination approach and a value of about 3.0 meters for the Single-Epoch combination approach.</p><p>Default is a value of '999.0'.</p>"));
   _cmbSamplSpinBox->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>Specify a combination sampling interval for the Clocks. The clock corrections will be produced following that interval. A value of 10 sec may be an appropriate choice.</p>"));
-  _cmbUseGlonass->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>In case the incoming orbit and clock correction stream(s) support GLONASS, you can tick 'Use GLONASS' to produce a GPS plus GLONASS combination solution.</p><p>Default is a GPS-only combination."));
+  _cmbUseGlonass->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>In case the incoming orbit and clock correction stream(s) support GLONASS, you can tick 'Use GLONASS' to produce a GPS plus GLONASS combination solution.</p><p>Default is a GPS-only combination.</p>"));
   _cmbMethodComboBox->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>Select a clock combination approach. Options are 'Single-Epoch' and Kalman 'Filter'. It is suggested to use the Kalman filter approach for the purpose of Precise Point Positioning.</p>"));
   _uploadTable->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>BNC can upload clock and orbit corrections to broadcast ephemeris (Broadcast Corrections) in RTCM Version 3 SSR format. You may have a situation where clocks and orbits come from an external Real-time Network Engine (1) or a situation where clock and orbit corrections are combined within BNC (2).</p><p>(1) BNC identifies a stream as coming from a Real-time Network Engine if its format is specified as 'RTNET' and hence its decoder string in the 'Streams' canvas is 'RTNET'. It encodes and uploads that stream to the specified Ntrip broadcaster</p><p>(2) BNC understands that it is expected to encode and upload combined Broadcast Ephemeris corrections if you specify correction streams in the 'Combine Corrections' stream table.</p><p>Hit the 'Add Row' button, double click on the 'Host' field to enter the IP or URL of an Ntrip broadcaster and hit Enter. Then double click on the 'Port', 'Mount' and 'Password' fields to enter the Ntrip broadcaster IP port (default is 80), the mountpoint and the stream upload password. An empty 'Host' option field means that you don't want to upload corrections.</p><p>Select a target coordinate reference system (e.g. IGS08) for outgoing clock and orbit corrections.</p><p>By default orbit and clock corrections refer to Antenna Phase Center (APC). Tick 'CoM' to refer uploaded corrections to Center of Mass instead of APC.</p><p>Specify a path for saving the generated Broadcast Corrections plus Broadcast Ephemeris as SP3 orbit files. If the specified directory does not exist, BNC will not create SP3 orbit files. The following is a path example for a Linux system:<br>/home/user/BNC${GPSWD}.sp3<br>Note that '${GPSWD}' produces the GPS Week and Day number in the filename.</p><p>When saving SP3 file contents and/or referring correctors to the satellite's Center of Mass (CoM), an offset has to be applied because correctors originally refer to the satellite's Antenna Phase Center (APC). Antenna offsets are available from the IGS 'ANTEX file' which can be introduced through specifying its path. If you don't specify an 'ANTEX file' path, the SP3 file contents and the orbit and clock correctors will be referred to satellite APCs and not to CoM.</p><p>Specify a path for saving the generated Broadcast Correction clocks plus Broadcast Ephemeris clocks as Clock RINEX files. If the specified directory does not exist, BNC will not create Clock RINEX files. The following is a path example for a Linux system:<br>/home/user/BNC${GPSWD}.clk<br>Note that '${GPSWD}' produces the GPS Week and Day number in the filename.</p><p>Specify finally an SSR Provider ID number, an SSR Solution ID number and an Issue of Data SSR number.</p><p>In case the 'Combine Corrections' table contains only one Broadcast Corrections stream, BNC will merge that stream with Broadcast Ephemeris to save results in files specified here through SP3 and/or Clock RINEX file path. In such a case you should define only the SP3 and Clock RINEX file path and no further options in the 'Upload Corrections' table.</p>"));
 
-  addCmbRowButton->setWhatsThis(tr("Hit 'Add Row' button to add another line to the mountpoints table."));
-  delCmbRowButton->setWhatsThis(tr("Hit 'Delete' button to delete the highlighted line from the mountpoints table."));
-  addUploadRowButton->setWhatsThis(tr("Hit 'Add Row' button to add another line to the stream upload table."));
-  delUploadRowButton->setWhatsThis(tr("Hit 'Del Row' button to delete the highlighted line from the stream upload table."));
-  _uploadIntrComboBox->setWhatsThis(tr("Select the length of the SP3 and Clock RINEX files."));
-  _uploadSamplRtcmEphCorrSpinBox->setWhatsThis(tr("Select the stream's orbit correction sampling interval in seconds. A value of zero '0' tells BNC to upload all available orbit and clock correction samples together in combined messages."));
-  _uploadSamplClkRnxSpinBox->setWhatsThis(tr("Select the Clock RINEX file sampling interval in seconds. A value of zero '0' tells BNC to store all available samples into Clock RINEX files."));
-  _uploadSamplSp3SpinBox->setWhatsThis(tr("Select the SP3 orbit file sampling interval in minutes. A value of zero '0' tells BNC to store all available samples into SP3 orbit files."));
-  setUploadTrafoButton->setWhatsThis(tr("Hit 'Custom Trafo' to specify your own 14 parameter Helmert Transformation instead of selecting a predefined transformation through 'System' button."));
+  addCmbRowButton->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>Hit 'Add Row' button to add another line to the mountpoints table.</p>"));
+  delCmbRowButton->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>Hit 'Delete' button to delete the highlighted line from the mountpoints table.</p>"));
+  addUploadRowButton->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>Hit 'Add Row' button to add another line to the stream upload table.</p>"));
+  delUploadRowButton->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>Hit 'Del Row' button to delete the highlighted line from the stream upload table.</p>"));
+  _uploadIntrComboBox->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>Select the length of the SP3 and Clock RINEX files.</p>"));
+  _uploadSamplRtcmEphCorrSpinBox->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>Select the stream's orbit correction sampling interval in seconds. A value of zero '0' tells BNC to upload all available orbit and clock correction samples together in combined messages.</p>"));
+  _uploadSamplClkRnxSpinBox->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>Select the Clock RINEX file sampling interval in seconds. A value of zero '0' tells BNC to store all available samples into Clock RINEX files.</p>"));
+  _uploadSamplSp3SpinBox->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>Select the SP3 orbit file sampling interval in minutes. A value of zero '0' tells BNC to store all available samples into SP3 orbit files.</p>"));
+  setUploadTrafoButton->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>Hit 'Custom Trafo' to specify your own 14 parameter Helmert Transformation instead of selecting a predefined transformation through 'System' button.</p>"));
   _uploadAntexFile->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>When producing SP3 files or referring orbit and clock corrections to the satellite's Center of Mass (CoM) instead of Antenna Phase Center (APC), an offset has to be applied which is available from the IGS 'ANTEX file'. You must therefore specify the 'ANTEX file' path if you want to save the stream contents in SP3 format and/or refer correctors to CoM.</p><p>If you don't specify an 'ANTEX file' path, the SP3 file contents as well as the orbit and clock correctors will be referred to satellite APCs.</p>"));
-  _uploadEphHostLineEdit->setWhatsThis(tr("BNC can upload a Broadcast Ephemeris stream in RTCM Version 3 format. Specify the host IP of an Ntrip Broadcaster to upload the stream. An empty option field means that you don't want to upload Broadcast Ephemeris."));
-  _uploadEphPortLineEdit->setWhatsThis(tr("Specify the IP port of an Ntrip Broadcaster to upload the stream. Default is port 80."));
-  _uploadEphMountpointLineEdit->setWhatsThis(tr("Specify the mounpoint for stream upload to an Ntrip Broadcaster."));
-  _uploadEphPasswordLineEdit->setWhatsThis(tr("Specify the stream upload password protecting the mounpoint on an Ntrip Broadcaster."));
-  _uploadEphSampleSpinBox->setWhatsThis(tr("Select the Broadcast Ephemeris sampling interval in seconds. Defaut is '5' meaning that a complete set of Broadcast Ephemeris is uploaded every 5 seconds."));
-  _uploadEphBytesCounter->setWhatsThis(tr("BNC shows the amount of data uploaded through this stream."));
+  _uploadEphHostLineEdit->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>BNC can upload a Broadcast Ephemeris stream in RTCM Version 3 format. Specify the host IP of an Ntrip Broadcaster to upload the stream. An empty option field means that you don't want to upload Broadcast Ephemeris.</p>"));
+  _uploadEphPortLineEdit->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>Specify the IP port of an Ntrip Broadcaster to upload the stream. Default is port 80.</p>"));
+  _uploadEphMountpointLineEdit->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>Specify the mounpoint for stream upload to an Ntrip Broadcaster.</p>"));
+  _uploadEphPasswordLineEdit->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>Specify the stream upload password protecting the mounpoint on an Ntrip Broadcaster.</p>"));
+  _uploadEphSampleSpinBox->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>Select the Broadcast Ephemeris sampling interval in seconds. Defaut is '5' meaning that a complete set of Broadcast Ephemeris is uploaded every 5 seconds.</p>"));
+  _uploadEphBytesCounter->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>BNC shows the amount of data uploaded through this stream.</p>"));
   _actDeleteMountPoints->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>Delete stream(s) from selection presented in the 'Streams' canvas.</p>"));
   _actAddMountPoints->setWhatsThis(tr("<p>Add stream(s) to selection presented in the 'Streams' canvas.</p>"));