I'm leery of having the applet become completely invisible if there isn't a player running; that sounds like it's guaranteed to confuse the user. What if instead there were an option to have the applet appear as normal even if there isn't a player running? The Play button would then both launch the player and tell it to start playing.
I'm leery of having the applet become completely invisible if there isn't a player running; that sounds like it's guaranteed to confuse the user. What if instead there were an option to have the applet appear as normal even if there isn't a player running? The Play button would then both launch the player and tell it to start playing.