Simple Button Target Question

Just wondering...
Say I have a button that leads to menu 2... what is the general usage pattern? do you generally set you button to go to another button on menu 2, or is common practice simply to go to [Menu] target of menu 2? If not to the [Menu] target, why to a button?
Thanks yet again...

If you do not set a button as target, then it goes to the default button on the menu, which may get switched depending on where the buttons are and how you moved the buttons. It is a question of your navigation scheme that you want. I usually target a button as a matter of course and check all navigation also for where I want things to go/behave.

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stop();
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I've been staring at this code for an hour. Maybe I need a break? This is a very simple button that just won't accept my touch events.
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xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
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<RowDefinition/>
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Okay....I'm just trying to create a simple button to test. I create a square, convert it to a button symbol. I click on the button and open the Actions window. The window says "current selection cannot have actions applied to it." Have I missed a step? I can add an action to a keyframe okay, but when I click a button, even just a simple button, it will not allow me to add an action to it?
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