Character Assistant cannot make optional specialties

[watsonsword]

Skills >> Right click a skill >> Create Optional Specialty = "x is already an Easy skill, and can't be used to create an optional specialty."

Thing is, this happens no matter what skill I try this on: cooking, literature, physics, everything!

The reason I want to do this is so I'll have a default on a second specialty. But if I go about that the hard way, creating a new skill and trying to insert a default through window-edit, it won't let me!

I have the latest version with all available data files.

[Anaraxes]

I gave it a quick try, and had no trouble creating a specialty for Hard skills like Physics or Literature. By RAW, you cannot specialize an Easy skill, so the dialog box is correct in that respect.

I did notice one possibly confusing UI behavior. Let's say you have a couple of skills in the list:
Area Knowledge (E)
Physics (H)

Select AK by left-clicking on it. Right-mouse, select Create Optional Specialty, and notice you get the dialog box as expected. Close the dialog.

Now, right-mouse on Physics, without doing anything else. You get a menu over the Physics line. Select Create Optional Specialty, and you'll get the error dialog. But -- notice where the highlight is. The blue line is still on Area Knowledge, an Easy skill. Right-mousing on a skill doesn't shift the focus to that skill. It just brings up the right-mouse menu for whichever skill has the focus thanks to the left-click.

This sounds like it could be your trouble; it matches the symptoms, anyway. Try left-clicking on the skill you want to change to be sure that skill (e.g., Physics or Literature) has the blue highlight, then right-mouse to get the menu to create a specialty.

[watsonsword]

Doesn't work. I did neglect to mention that the message popup says the name of the skill.

Physics is highlighted, and the message says, "Physics is already an Easy skill, and can't be used to create an optional specialty.

[Stormcrow]

I can't replicate this behavior either. What data files are you using? Does this still happen if you use only the Basic Set file? If you examine a non-Easy skill, does it actually say something other than Easy?

[tanksoldier]

My GCA gives a checkbox to create a specialty for Physics.