Flash Transparency of Overlapping Items

In Flash, I have a container with several overlapping children. When I give this container an alpha value of .5, some of the children can be seen behind others that overlap them. I would rathe开发者_开发技巧r be able to take the whole thing as a composite image and blend it that way.

Any ideas? cacheAsBitmap on the parent container doesn't have any effect.

BlendMode.LAYER

Well, use Bitmap.draw() function... And then just alpha that image.

Like, put it into a MC and give an alpha value to it (for example).