Nice idea, but just to be sure I'm not misunderstanding, you are saying you'd like to select some sprite frames and then have a preview window play them back at a selectable frame rate?
The thought of 'preview selected sprites' didn't occur me... I was thinking of previewing slices sprites altogether.
I guess that would be neat as well.
I think that should doable, btw I haven't forgotten about improved UI suggestions you made in a previous post, those are still in the works.