Button Nested In Group Does Not Receive buttonSelected

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Hi,

I’m trying to structure my app so that each screen is in its own Group so that I can toggle visibility for each screen from the top level Scene.
However somehow a button on a [child] screen despite having focus, does not respond to click events.
If I have a button that’s setup the same way directly as a child of the top level Scene, it works as expected.

What am I missing? Is Group not the right way to cluster / group a screen’s elements? Is there something else I need to do to ensure elements in the child screen receive input events?

Here is the source code that demonstrates the issue:

EntryScreen.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<component name="EntryScreen" extends="Scene">
  <children>
    <ChildScreen
      id="ChildScreen"
      visible="false"/>

    <Button
      id="TopLevelButton"
      text="Top Level Button"
      textFont="font:LargeBoldSystemFont"
      focusedTextFont="font:LargeBoldSystemFont"
      translation="[700,840]"
      visible = "true"/>
  </children>

  <interface>
  </interface>

  <script type="text/brightscript" uri="pkg:/components/EntryScreen.brs"/>
</component>

EntryScreen.brs

sub init()
  print "init top level scene/screen"
  m.Button = m.top.findNode("TopLevelButton")
  m.Button.observeField("buttonSelected", "onButtonPress")
  m.Button.setFocus(true)
end sub

sub onButtonPress(event as object)
  print "Top Level Button Clicked"
end sub

ChildScreen.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<component name="ChildScreen" extends="Group">
  <children>
    <Button
      id="ChildLevelButton"
      text="Child Level Button"
      textFont="font:LargeBoldSystemFont"
      focusedTextFont="font:LargeBoldSystemFont"
      translation="[700,840]"/>
  </children>

  <interface>
  </interface>

  <script type="text/brightscript" uri="pkg:/components/ChildScreen.brs"/>
</component>

ChildScreen.brs


sub init()
  print "init child screen"
  m.Button = m.top.findNode("ChildLevelButton")
  m.Button.observeField("buttonSelected", "onChildButtonPressed")
  m.Button.text = "Child Level Button Changed From Code"
  m.Button.setFocus(true)
end sub

sub onChildButtonPressed(event as object)
  print "Child Level Button Clicked"
end sub

To see the different behavior, I toggle the visible flag on the children in EntryScreen.xml
Any help on this is much appreciated.
Cheers,
Thorben