If you have a look at the first widget I posted, the progress images (fill & backdrop) are attached:
I hope that’s what you meant.
Not exactly sure what you mean but I believe you want to access the widget and pass the data. I’d create an array for any children a widget can have and access them by index (as seen in my first post). You could set up a custom event in the master widget telling children what to do, something along the lines of: