Toggle Menu just works one way

Questions & Answers
1

I have this code for toggling my optionsmenu but it only works when hiding the menu.
In // I had another way that didn’t work either so I went for the if else statements but that gave me the same result. I would rather have “optionsMenu.SetActive(!optionsMenu.activeSelf);” work, but I’ll take any solution at this point.
Sorry if it’s a dumb question I’ve just started coding in C#

void Update() {
    if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Escape)) {

        if (optionsMenu.activeInHierarchy == false) {
            optionsMenu.SetActive(true);
        }
        else {
            optionsMenu.SetActive(false);
        }

        //optionsMenu.SetActive(!optionsMenu.activeSelf);
    }
}
2

Hi,
if you disable the GameObject on which the script was added, the Update() method will no longer be called

3

dumb question maybe. but this script does not by chance reside on the same gameobject you are setting active/false? because as a result of being set to inactive, the update method would no longer be called and “optionsMenu.SetActive(true)” will never be executed.

4

OMG YES, Thank you both so much!!