ImageView with transparency

I have an ImageView which contains an Image that has transparency. The default behavior for ImageView is to not fire mouse events on parts of the image that are fully transparent. However, I want events on all pixels in the image, regardless of their opacity.
Rectangle has this behavior by default, that is, if you create a Rectangle like this:
var r = Rectangle {
fill: Color.color(0,0,0,0);
width: 136
height: 19
onMouseMoved: function(Void) {
println("mouse moved");
you'll see the printout even though the rectangle isn't visible.
Is there any way to do the same for ImageView?
-Ken

You almost answered yourself: a possible workaround is to put a transparent rectangle over the ImageView and let it handle the events.
Maybe there is something simpler or more elegant, but hey, if nobody else has a suggestion... :-)

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public class TransparentImageViewClickableArea extends Rectangle{
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        super(imageView.getLayoutX(), imageView.getLayoutY(), imageView.getImage().getWidth(), imageView.getImage().getHeight());
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        DoubleBinding layoutYBinding = new DoubleBinding() {
                super.bind(imageView.layoutYProperty(), imageView.scaleYProperty());
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                final double imgHeight = imageView.getImage().getHeight();
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        heightProperty().bind(imageView.getImage().heightProperty().multiply(imageView.scaleYProperty()));
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