I have a screen that has a keyboard, and on enter parses a password in order to display a hidden menu. To do this I use scripting, although I realise there is probably a way to do this with a state machine. But that aside it got me wondering, is there a simpler way to programatically change view other than the following:

Hello andymartyn,

That looks fine to me, you are sending the same action that we use on a button press event or transition event. It seems simple and straight forward.