Obtaining and dropping a pickup item {SOLVED}

I'm making a game for a college brief and in it the player will be able to to press a GUI button to be given a pickup - you'll never actually see the pickup, i just want something to display saying something similar to "pickup obtained" - I'm presuming id do this using a canvas.
hopefully then the player will be able to walk into a trigger and drop the pickup but I'm not sure how id write the script so that nothing will happen if the player enters the trigger without the pickup and so that this only occurs when you enter one certain trigger.

i know I'm asking for something kinda big, any help will be greatly appreciated as i have a deadline in 17 days.
Thanks in advance.

 

I would do OnTriggerEnter and then have a bool variable named pickedUp. If false, then destroy the gameobject (pickup), while editing an empty text in the canvas, to say "Item picked up". And of course set pickedUp to true

 

Oh sorry, I misunderstood it. But it's pretty much something like that. When button in Canvas is pressed, you set a pickupEquipped to true and a fancy text saying "pickup obtained". Then when you do OnTriggerEnter, you check for that bool. If true, then set pickupEquipped to false, and do some fancy text saying "pickup dropped"

But that's how I would do it. I'm not an expert, but this would work. Sure, there is a much better way of doing it.

 

Thank you! I'll try this out when I can.

 

I did this and it worked great - it was exactly what I wanted to do, thanks!!

 

No problem Glad it worked out for you.