Calendar troubles: formatting upcoming months?

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Warning: I’m still quite new at coding of any type.

After a day of hacking away at actionscript I was able to cobble together a calendar without relying on anything but Flash’s help files, so I’m proud of myself for getting as far as I have…

…but here is where it breaks down:

My calendar will correctly display the current month and day but I can not make it display the next month or a previous month.

How can you use the date object to sort out a calendar for upcoming months (or previous months)?

I guess I should throw the code that i’ve managed. Feel free to ridicule it’s foolishness. =)


stop();
//month functions
function monthExpand(number) {
	month = ["January", "Febuary", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December"];
	return (month[number]);
}
function monthDays(number) {
	days = [31, 28, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31];
	if (number == 1) {
		if (unidate.getFullYear()%4 == 0) {
			if (unidate.getFullYear()%100 == 0) {
				if (unidate.getFullYear()%400 == 0) {
					return (29);
				} else {
					return (28);
				}
			} else {
				return (29);
			}
		} else {
			return (28);
		}
	} else {
		return (days[number]);
	}
}
function getFirstDay() {
	var thisDate = uniDate.getDate();
	var thisDay = uniDate.getDay();
	for (thisDate; thisDate>1; thisDate--) {
		thisDay--;
		if (thisDay<0) {
			thisDay = 6;
		}
	}
	return (thisDay);
}
//create date objects
uniDate = new Date();
orgDate = new Date();
//calendar drawing function
function calendarDraw() {
	//variables
	var rowSize = 7;
	var currentCell = 0;
	var increment = 40;
	var yStart = 70;
	var dayCount = 1;
	var maxCell = monthDays(uniDate.getMonth())+getFirstDay();
	var cellStart = getFirstDay();
	// populate month and year field
	calHeader = (monthExpand(uniDate.getMonth())+" "+uniDate.getFullYear());
	//draw days
	for (currentCell; currentCell<maxCell; currentCell++) {
		var y = int(currentCell/rowSize);
		var x = currentCell-y*rowSize;
		if (currentCell>=cellStart) {
			this.attachMovie("calendarFill", "fill"+dayCount, currentCell);
			this["fill"+dayCount]._x = x*increment;
			this["fill"+dayCount]._y = y*increment+yStart;
			this["fill"+dayCount].fDate = dayCount;
			if (orgDate.getDate() == dayCount && orgDate.getMonth()==uniDate.getMonth()) {
				var todayColour = new Color(this["fill"+dayCount].cFill);
				todayColour.setRGB(0xF9793C);
			}
			dayCount++;
		}
	}
}
function calendarClear(){
	for(i = 1;i<35;i++){
		this["fill"+i].removeMovieClip();
	}
}
calendarDraw();