Checking if an item was equipped after pressing Backspace

[Remaining_Rust (Toxxic)]

Basically, I’m trying to make an NPC that teaches the player how to drop items. Once you get to the point where he tells you to press backspace, I have 2 events depending on whether the player is holding the item or not. The problem is, even if I did hold the item before, he still doesn’t detect that I did. Here’s what I’m talking about:

I’m pretty sure the problem here is that the item gets unequipped before the script can check if it was equipped or not, but I have no idea how to fix this. Here’s my code:

key.InputBegan:Connect(function(input)
    if input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.Backspace then
	    local bloxy = player.Backpack:FindFirstChild("Bloxy Cola")
		if not bloxy then
			--item was equipped
		else
			--item wasn't equipped
		end
	end
end)

I also tried to fix this by first checking if the item was equipped and then checking if the pressed key was Backspace, but it still didn’t work. Also, the catch here is that you can’t drop items, so checking if the item is in Workspace won’t work either.

[maxlamenace912 (ZoyKad)]

It would probably be more accurate if instead of using

local bloxy = player.Backpack:FindFirstChild("Bloxy Cola")

U used :

local bloxy = player.Character and player.Character:FindFirstChild("Bloxy Cola")

EDIT :
You cannot check if player has the item equipped when the key is pressed since the InputBegan event fire after the player drop the item. Instead you should verify before InputBegan so it’ll know if the player equipped the item :

local wasEquipped = false
local inputBeganConnection = nil

local function onEquipped()
    wasEquipped = true
    inputBeganConnection  = key.InputBegan:Connect(function(input)
		if input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.Backspace then
			if wasEquipped then
				-- item was equipped
			else
				-- item wasn't equipped
			end
		end
	end)
end

local function onAncestryChanged()
    if tool.Parent == plr.Character then return end

	if inputBeganConnection then
		inputBeganConnection:Disconnect()
	end
end

tool.AncestryChanged:Connect(onAncestryChanged)
tool.Equipped:Connect(onEquipped)

Then you can adapt this piece of program to solve ur problem

[Remaining_Rust (Toxxic)]

Okay, I solved this myself now, but thanks for helping either way. I made a seperate script to keep track of whether the item is equipped or not and change a BoolValue to true/false, and then I edited my current script to check the value instead of where the tool is. Since the loop checking the item has a 0.2 second delay, the other script can check the value before it changes to false.