On my game I have set up a menu by using the menus option under projects, but how do I actually use this during the game when it's running?
Oh, that is an inactive feature that shouldn't even be there. It simply doesn't work.
Consider making a menu using game objects instead - a new layer with 0% scroll rates, panel object, text objects, on mouse click events etc.
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Ok then