Problem with 8 direction movement

[Eingya]

I'm using a joystick. I wanted to use 8 direction movement but not use the diagonals. Problem is that now when the joystick direction is diagonal the player just stop, which makes moving around sorta of ankward. Is there any way around this with the standard 8 direction movement? Otherwise could anyone give me an example of a custom 8 direction movement from which I can work?

[Del_Duio]

Hmmm, I'm not sure if this would be a good idea but how about something like this:

If (no direction on the joystick) is pressed then UMOVE = 0
If joystick is pressed RIGHT then UMOVE = 1 : Set guy's direction to right
If joystick is pressed LEFT then UMOVE = 2 : Set guy's direction to left
If joystick is pressed UP then UMOVE = 3 : Set guy's direction to up
If joystick is pressed DOWN then UMOVE = 4 : Set guy's direction to down
If UMOVE <> 0 then set maximum speed of PLAYER to (however fast you're having him move around) else set maximum speed to 0

If I'm not mistaken, this would mean that the guy would continue to move in the last known direction the player pressed the joystick until he either pressed in one of the other 4 cardinal directions or the guy would stop if the player wasn't pressing the joystick at all. So if you pressed diagonal the guy would still be moving (I think??)

Sorry maybe this doesn't make much sense for what you want.