Hi @oscar6echo, love this implementation! I was wondering how to programmatically toggle the play/pause button from another cell. Say I want to set a timeout at a specific timepoint to highlight something, is it possible to pause and then resume the player? Thanks!

hi @samussiah, yes it is possible. I just added an example in the 'programmatic update' section. Hope this helps.

It appears that the stepRight and stepLeft buttons also change the direction. For example: When the the player is moving forward, the direction will change to reverse upon this input sequence: pause, stepLeft, play. Perhaps this is intentional, but to me it is unintuitive. My expectation is that the direction of play will remain the same even if I pause and step left or right during that progression.

Yes I agree it is a more intuitive behavior. I updated it.

Also: I cherry picked the content of suggestion below by KentR because I did not know how to do it other than manually. @KentR thx for the improvement. https://observablehq.com/compare/2ceeb00c62a8fe26...8552b91986f40ea8

The toggle direction button doesn't appear to do anything for me. After clicking, the player continues in the same direction.

Thx for the feedback. Indeed, my mistaked. Fixed