Ever wanted to look like a secret agent hacking into top secret files?
Want to impress your friends?
Try nCoder for TI nSpire!

Boot it up and be greeted with the ability to select your desired typing speed

Continue, and witness an awesome intro scene making it look like you are hacking through a security system!

Then comes the main point of the program: simply mash random buttons on the keyboard, and actual code will appear onscreen, tricking bystanders into thinking you have some sort of black-magic typing skills. You can look more believable by using a 1:1 ratio of button presses to character outputs, or look like a typing whiz by cranking it up to 9 characters outputted per one button press.

This program is based on the awesome http://hackertyper.net/ and I give all credit to the developer of that webpage for the idea. The code that appears when you type is literally just an older version of the code for the program itself because I was too lazy to write a fake yet realistic-looking placeholder code, but if anyone feels like writing up a fake (or real) piece of code that looks like it would be used to hack into something, send it my way and I'll reformat it and implement it in the program (I might even make it so you get a random output code each time) to make it more authentic.
Hope you all find it interesting - the .tns file is attached to this post!

Looks nice, but I wonder if it would be possible to make the text smaller so that more can fit in the screen?

Using a monospace raster font would also help. (Yeah, I know all fonts on the Nspire are raster, but I'm talking about the kind you see when you use the terminal on a computer.)

I agree that full screen is a must, but Lua code, Axe code, C++ code, console code or brainf*ck code, it doesn't matter, this is made to amaze noob and as long as text they don't understand is written in green on a black background, they assume you are a hacker.

I've implemented some monospace routines that you can find in LuaTerm 2.0 http://ourl.ca/19543

Fullscreen requires some little tricks, because it's not officially supported. If you draw using the gc from platform.withGC (while being in on.paint) you can go fullscreen. On 3.1 you need to to call gc:begin(), do what you want to draw in fullscreen, and then call gc:finish(). On 3.6 the withGC trick doesn't work anymore and you have to use the 1.0 apiLevel together with the 3.1 code to be able to do it.

Rad idea: make it show its own source code.

That's what it does currently xD

Here is a function that returns the source of the current document:

function getSource()
    return (string.dump(getSource):sub(14):gsub("-- %TI.SCRIPTAPP.*$", ""):gsub("%z", ""))
end


Yeah, well it's cutting the Lua header off. There are some interesting bytes in there you know ;P But as we only need the source code I have to extract just what I need.