Transparent parts of component are preventing mouse events

Hello,
I am working with a bunch of components that are layered over top of eachother.
Some of the components are odd shaped and have a transparent background.
When I try to click on components that are behind others the mouse event is not fireing.
is ther a way I can fix this?
Drew

There is a difference between transparent background and no background. If I take a Sprite and draw a filled triangle like this:
moveTo(0,0)
lineTo(100, 100)
lineTo(100, 0)
lineTo(0,0)
Then any component under the half I didn't draw on is "visible" to the mouse and my Sprite will not get mouse events.
If I fill that area with a background with alpha=0, then I've effectively placed a piece of glass in my component and it will get mouse events even though you can see through to things behind it.
Alex Harui
Flex SDK Developer
Adobe Systems Inc.
Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui

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                repaint();
        public void mouseDragged(MouseEvent e) { }
    public static void main( String[] args )
        new GPD();
}

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