Couple of joystick/gamepad issues

Hi there,

I'm in the process of testing out using a joystick or gamepad on my project and have come across a couple of issues...

- the version of my project written for joystick/gamepad I can no longer use the keyboard inputs. i.e. I'd like to have a joystick/gamepad or mouse and keyboard version but the joystick controls seem to override the keyboard - oh to clarify, I can still use the arrow forward/backward keyboard keys (and mouse still does pitch/yaw) but nothing that's been assigned a bind to any actual keys on the joystick works on keyboard anymore.

Anyone know a fix for this?

- Also, am having a problem assigning footstep sound to joystick movement, forward and back, well they play but won't stop (and play really fast!). I'll put code I'm using below, works fine when using arrows on keyboard.

//--joystick move forward function from presetkeys.cs (equivalent to default.bind.cs)

function moveforward2(%val)
{


if( %val > - 0.7 && %val < 0.7 )
{
$mvForwardAction = 0;
return;
}

$mvForwardAction = -%val*$movementSpeed;
if (%val)
commandToServer('startFootsteps');
else
commandToServer('stopFootsteps');
}

//--referencing this part of my file called footsteps.cs...

datablock AudioProfile(Footstep1)
{
fileName = "~/data/sound/FootStep1.wav";
description = "AudioClosest3d";
preload = true;
};

function serverCmdStartFootsteps(%client)
{
%client.player.schedule(200,playFootstep);
%client.player.footstepson = true;
}
function serverCmdStopFootsteps(%client)
{
%client.player.footstepson = false;
}

function Player::playFootstep(%this)
{
if(%this.footstepson)
{
serverPlay3D(FootStep1,%this.getTransform());
%this.schedule(500,playFootstep);
}
}

Can anyone suggest where I'm going wrong?
thanks, Bev