CityDesk 1 allowed you to insert a captioned image into your articles (an image with a line of text below it). This feature was removed for CityDesk 2 but I liked it. So I’ve written a small application (pictured right) that will generate the html you need to insert a captioned image into your article in HTML view.

Once you install Captioned Image Creator you will find (the next time you start CityDesk) that it appears on the tools menu, as well as in the Start menu. If you want to insert an image with a caption then fire off the application and copy the magic names of the image, article you wish the image to link to (or URL), width and height of the image and the actual caption and alternate text. You then select whether you wish to left-align, center or right-align the image. Click ‘Copy’ and the html will be copied to the clipboard. Then go to HTML view in your CityDesk article and paste in the html. Flip back to Normal view and you should see your captioned image. It really is as simple as that.

The application was written on Windows XP and should work just fine on Windows 2000, ME and 98. You are required to install the Microsoft.NET Framework 2.0 to get it to run (sorry about that, it’s about a 23MB download) which you can find here (Microsoft).

Download the Installer (v1.0.3211.31057 – 314KB)

The release notes follow:

• Fixed a problem with the installer on Vista. [1.0.3211.31057]
• Upgraded the installer and made a couple of build setting changes – nothing interesting. [1.0.1625.32026]
• Initial release. [1.0.1384.19230]