How do i get a Widget to read from CP4's Library (holly grail of widgets)

Hi All
I'm having a little trouble with one of my widgets. The widget basically creates a simple image tween inside CP4. (something i think is sorely missed in the CP franchise)
To make this widget reusable I need to be able to replace the image with appropriate image depending on the subject matter.
I have found a number of ways of doing this but they all have their own problems..
1) Read an image from an external file - the problem is that IE6 (the customers default browser) throws a flash security error. (no errors in firefox suprise surprise)
2) Publish the widget flash file with multiple images in its flash library - The Problem is Captivate eats away your RAM. This is because CP4 doesn't dump the the widget out or RAM at the end of each slide. And if your using multiple instances of a large widget in the one program.. Get ready for a rude shock by the end of your movie!
3) Store the images for your widget in CP4's internal widget XML file by encoding the bitmap data into a base 64 string - (Ingenious YES) but does it work ... Sort of.. the problem here lies (we think) in the max possible length of the internal XML file.. We have been crashing captivate when we import more then about 7 images into the XML string.
FINALLY THE QUESTION!!
Does any know how to read / use CP4s library using a widget? We would prefer a solution in AS3 but beggars cant be choosers...
Cheers
Aquil0

Hi Aquil0,
If there was any way to access the library, I'd think it would be through a Captivate Variable (Accessed via movieHandle I would guess).
Pipwerks has a rather extensive list of Captivate Variables, but none of the ones listed there seem to access the library. You could try following the pattern and seeing if  'cpLibrary' or something similar exists.
I'm very interested to see if this problem can be fixed, because this is probably one of the main roadblocks in creating a drag and drop question widget. I had thought before that you would have to pull in a image file from the server, and I'm a bit disappointed to hear it doesn't work for IE6.
Just out of curiosity. Could you share how you passed the image information into the widget XML? Anything regarding Widget parameters generaly interests me.

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