How can I show/Hide a UI popup menu in Unity with a button press?

Hi forum
(I am a noob at Unity and C# scripting)

I have been working on a UI menu in Unity for a while now. I have tried writing some scripts but they have not been succesfull. Can anyone help me? I have made the menu look like an Ipad that is supposed to popup when a joystickbutton is pressed. It seems like the scripts doesnt recognice the gameobject?

The menu is a in a prefab of the Ipad model.

Here is my code:

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class MenuAppear : MonoBehaviour
{
public Gameobject Canvas;
private bool isShowing;

// Update is called once per frame
void Update() {
if(Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.JoystickButton1))
isShowing = !isShowing;
Canvas.SetActive(isShowing);
}
}

 

I got the canvas to open and close with buttonpress on X o the keyboard!
Does anybody know how I can make the menu show in front of me (and scale it down when it opens in front of me?)

 

Move your Canvas object inside your Player object (in the Hierarchy tab). Then, however the player moves, your canvas will move too.

 

FrontEnd Fanatics on YouTube has a good video on Debugging for the Oculus Quest. In it, he uses a free asset called Graphy, which he hide/shows to the Oculus Start button (left hand menu button). It's in the latter part of the video, but he goes over Screen/World space, placing it near but not on top of you...which camera to use, etc.

 

I found out how to do it now Thanks! Now the menu is a reasonable size in front of the player. I made the buttons interactable, now I just need to figure out how to get the left oculus controller to cast a ray and click on them

 

Thanks I got the menu to show up in front of the player now.