finally i got it i have never programmed in any laguages before other then in highschool some turbo pascal a lonng time ago here is some sample code that i came up with if someone has a better idea of doing this let me know:
' Global variable declarations
Global g_HostSettleTime%
Global g_szPassword$
Sub Main()
'--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
' Get the main system object
Dim Sessions As Object
Dim System As Object
Dim Col As Integer
Dim Row As Integer
Dim Screen as Object
Dim today as String
Set System = CreateObject("EXTRA.System"

' Gets the system object
If (System is Nothing) Then
Msgbox "Could not create the EXTRA System object. Stopping macro playback."
STOP
End If
Set Sessions = System.Sessions
If (Sessions is Nothing) Then
Msgbox "Could not create the Sessions collection object. Stopping macro playback."
STOP
End If
'--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
' Set the default wait timeout value
g_HostSettleTime = 500 ' milliseconds
OldSystemTimeout& = System.TimeoutValue
If (g_HostSettleTime > OldSystemTimeout) Then
System.TimeoutValue = g_HostSettleTime
End If
' Get the necessary Session Object
Dim Sess0 As Object
Set Sess0 = System.ActiveSession
If (Sess0 is Nothing) Then
Msgbox "Could not create the Session object. Stopping macro playback."
STOP
End If
If Not Sess0.Visible Then Sess0.Visible = TRUE
Sess0.Screen.WaitHostQuiet(g_HostSettleTime)
' Get the screen object
Set Screen = System.ActiveSession.Screen
' This section of code contains the recorded events
Row% = Screen.Row
Col% = Screen.Col
Sess0.Screen.Sendkeys("$$$"

Col% = Col% + 3
Screen.Row = Row%
Screen.Col = Col%
today$ = Screen.GetString (1, 54, 2)
Screen.Row = Row%
Screen.Col = Col%
Screen.PutString today$
Col% = Col% + 2
today$ = Screen.GetString (1, 57, 2)
Screen.Row = Row%
Screen.Col = Col%
Screen.PutString today$
Col% = Col% + 2
Screen.Row = Row%
Screen.Col = Col%
'Sess0.Screen.paste
Sess0.Screen.Sendkeys("02 req adpas snd 2076/bank pifty/cs bxr623"

Sess0.Screen.WaitHostQuiet(g_HostSettleTime)
System.TimeoutValue = OldSystemTimeout
End Sub