Why have there been so many old Posts and Questions moving to the top of the Active Conversations stack the past two days, even though they have no new activity? This makes MaplePrimes very difficult to use! Please make it so that the Active Conversations stack is sorted by the actual time of the most-recent addition to the thread.

This Question involves using dsolve(..., numeric) for an IVP specifed by a procedure. This is based on a Question asked earlier today. In this Question, I have no interest in how to solve this IVP or in why this solution technique fails. In the worksheet below, the odeplot command seems to get stuck in an infinite loop (I am not interested in why that happens), and I press the stop button (in the Standard GUI). Then, instead of the usual Warning, computation interupted message followed by a return to the command prompt, I get an informative message and the plot that has been computed so far. This seems like a very useful feature: to return the results computed so far after an interuption. Furthermore, those results are programmatically accessible. My Question is How is this done? How do you trap the stop button and return the results?

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There are no examples for ModuleDeconstruct either on its help page or in the Programming Guide. Of course, I can figure out its basic and primarily intended purpose: to render the module/object in a one-dimensional plaintext printed form, which would be useful for debugging. But I am most interested in this use described in the second sentence of this, the second paragraph of Description at ?ModuleDeconstruct [italics added]:

When the value returned by ModuleDeconstruct is printed, the output could be capable of being parsed to the original module. When used with an object, ModuleDeconstruct can return an unevaluated call to a constructor to achieve this.

That seems very powerful. Is there any example of it being used in Maple library code? in user code? Can anyone here come up with a practical use for this? A Google search turns up nothing.

Can anyone tell me what is going on in the following worksheet? 

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How do I convert a hardware float to a software float? I have a procedure that is passed floats as arguments. They could be hardware or software floats. I need to set an attribute on these floats (with setattribute). Trying to use setattribute on a hardware float produces utterly bizarre results, although, strangely, not an error. But I'd be happy converting them to software floats and then setting the attribute. I tried (separately)

UseHardwareFloats:= false;

convert(x, float, 16);

SFloat(op(x));

And, FWIW, here's the procedure, although I doubt that it'll provide any more useful information than I've already given. Note that in this procedure I've redefined log to be the base-10 logarithm. (Not that that makes the slightest difference wrt my Question.)

LogView:= proc(viewspec::{range, identical(DEFAULT)}, Range::range)
local aV, bV, aP, bP, aL, bL;
     (aP,bP):= op(map(x-> 10^x, Range)); # The actual range of the ORIGINAL plot structure
     if viewspec = 'DEFAULT' then
          setattribute(op(1,Range), aP) .. setattribute(op(2,Range), bP)
     else
          (aV,bV):= op(viewspec); #The user-specified view in the pre-log units
          if bV <= 0 then error "upper view limit must be positive; received %1.", bV fi;
          (aL,bL):= op(Range); #Actual range of the log plot structure
          setattribute(`if`(aV >= aP, log(aV), aL - (aP-aV)/(min(bP,bV)-aP)*(log(min(bP,bV))-aL)), aV) 

          .. setattribute(`if`(bV <= bP, log(bV), bL + (bV-bP)/(bP-max(aP,aV))*(bL-log(max(aP,aV)))), bV) 

     end if
end proc;

In the specific use instance that I'm dealing with, the first parameter, viewspec, is DEFAULT, and the second, Range, is HFloat(-43.42...)..HFloat(43.42...).

I think the ideal solution would be to use parameter coercion to convert the arguments.