Creating Debug Menus using keyboard input

Does anyone know where i could find more information on how to create these kinds of menus? I want to start debugging my project but wanted to add a debug menu in order to be able to test different parts of my game. however, every tutorial I find on youtube is about how to create the main menu using the unity event system or some other variation. I specifically want to create one where the player would use the keyboard inputs in order to scroll through various options. while simple, I've yet to find one. does anyone have any suggestions?

 

Unity doesn't have a built in system for old school style text menus with a cursor that moves up and down the screen. My guess is that would be fairly complex to write in Unity from scratch, but debug menus usually look pretty plain because they are thrown together quick and dirty.

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It is possible you could find an asset on the Asset Store which implements this kind of menu, but I'd be surprised since it doesn't seem like something that would have a whole lot of demand.

Usually debug menus in Unity are done via IMGUI
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/GUIScriptingGuide.html

If I were to create a debug menu somewhat like you want, I'd probably just use the regular UI, put a large UI.Text filling most of the window, and an InputField at the bottom. Then you can fill the UI.Text with whatever text you want, and on each line put a number. The user then writes the number in the InputField. Watch the InputField for the enter key to use as submit, or add a separate submit button. Then just parse the input for an integer to determine the user's selection.

 

What specific part are you having trouble with? Displaying the menu, getting keyboard input, or something else?

For what it's worth, this isn't a "game design" question. You're likely to get a better response in the scripting or UI areas.