Code Review Vol. 1 - Calendar Class in ActionScript 3.0

I'd like to do switch gears for a moment and focus on some code. I'll name these sections, for lack of a better term, Code Review and I'll number them in volumes for ease of reference. The template that I'll follow will be as follows: whole numbers are the full source code, dot releases will be a walk through of the code. So for example this is Code Review Vol. 1 and I will follow up this post with a code walk through that I will title Code Review Vol. 1.01

Here's something interesting that I made recently in ActionScript 3.0. It's a calendar that uses the system date as the data source, the Model, and assembles a collection of Days in correct order, back filling and front-filling empty days. In the final implementation of this I have it being interfaced with a Controller that tells it to switch from month, week, or day View and passes it the month or date to render. For the below code I only show the month renderer, because the week renderer is just a subset of the month anyway.

I won't post the full implementation, because it has tween effects, events, and business logic that, if included, would only serve to obfuscate the actual intention of the code review. Also I de-normalized, if you will, re-coupled a bit for readability and succinctness. In total, I pared down a 300 line abstract class to an actual class that is less than 100 lines. Also I reference a Day class which I'm not including right now, but for the purposes of this example it can be thought of as a class that just extends the Sprite class, draws a rectangle and adds a TextField control to itself when it's drawn.

 import flash.display.*;
 import net.com.calendar.Day;

 public class AbstractCalendar extends Sprite 
 {
  private static var _dayIDSequence:Number = 0;
 
  private var _dayHeight:Number = 50;
  private var _dayWidth:Number = 50;
  private var _startX:Number = 10;
  private var _startY:Number = 10;
  
  private const WEEKDAYCOUNT:Number = 7;
  
  private var _bgColor:uint      = 0xCCCCCC;
  private var _borderColor:uint  = 0x666666;
  private var _borderSize:uint   = 1;        
        
  public function AbstractCalendar(month:Number)
  {}  

  private function createDay(today:Date,name:String, display:String, dayNum:Number):Day
  {
   var tempDay:Day = new Day()
   tempDay.name = getNewDayID();
   tempDay.setDate(today)
   tempDay.setName(name);
   tempDay.setDisplay(display);
   tempDay.setDayNumber(dayNum)
   tempDay.drawDay(_bgColor, _borderSize,_borderColor, _dayWidth, _dayHeight);
   tempDay.originalStackIndex = Number(tempDay.name)
   return tempDay
  }
  
  private function getNewDayID():String
  {
   return (_dayIDSequence++).toString();
  }  
  
  public function drawMonth(tempMonth:Number,tempDay:Day, backDay:Day):void{
   var currentDay:Number = 1
   var dayStepper:Number = 0
   var tempDate:Date = new Date(tempMonth + "/"+currentDay+"/" + new Date().getFullYear());
   var tempMonthChecker:Number = tempDate.getMonth()
   //check for current month  to step through each day in the month
   while(tempDate.getMonth() + 1 == tempMonth){
    
    tempDate = new Date(tempMonth + "/"+currentDay+"/" + new Date().getFullYear());
    tempMonthChecker = tempDate.getMonth()
    
    // check for day num, at each zero
    // reset startX back to 0
    if(tempDate.getDay() == 0){ _startX = 10}
    
    //figure out the day number for the first day only
    if(tempDate.getDay() > 0 && currentDay == 1 )
    {
     for(var x:Number = 0;x < tempDate.getDay(); x++)
     {
      //backfill previous days
      backDay = createDay(tempDate,"","",x)
      backDay.x = _startX
      backDay.y = _startY
      _startX += _dayWidth
      addChild(backDay);
      dayStepper++
     }
    }
    
    if(tempDate.getMonth() + 1 == tempMonth){
     tempDay = createDay(tempDate, "",currentDay.toString(),tempDate.getDay())
     tempDay.x = _startX
     tempDay.y = _startY
     _startX += _dayWidth
     addChild(tempDay);
     dayStepper++
     
     // increment startY by the _dayHeight
     if(dayStepper % WEEKDAYCOUNT == 0){_startY += _dayHeight}

     currentDay++
    }else{
     for(var y:Number = tempDate.getDay(); y < WEEKDAYCOUNT;y++)
     {
      //front fill the next months days
      backDay = createDay(tempDate,"","",x)
      backDay.x = _startX
      backDay.y = _startY
      _startX += _dayWidth
      addChild(backDay);
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }