hoping to reuse timeline/transport panel

I am making a simple movie clip player and I need to have a UI that is pretty much exactly the same as the main touch timeline. I thought it mat be simple to clone the /ui/dialogs/timeline, but then that dialog stays in sync with the master timeline, when I would like each component to have this transport built in, and each component running it’s own time. It is tscript in there and I am not finding it easy to peel it off an reuse it. Perhaps I need to build my own, but I am curious if anyone has tried this.
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