Select Joystick? - How can I select Joystick 2 in controls menu

[brinkwmj]

Hi,
I've just tried FMS (v2 beta 7) for the first time....it's great.
However I've got a MS sidewinder gamepad + a MS sidewinder analog joystick connected to my pc. The joystick is coming up as joystick 2 in the controls menu.
How can I make FMS use this joystick?
The only way I can use FMS with the joystick is to uninstall the gamepad (unplugging it doesn't work)
If I disconnect the gamepad I get errors when I go to the control menu and the program hangs

[The Gster]

You can go into control panel click on game controllers, and click on the advanced tab. Now change your game pad to 3, change your joystick to 1 and then change your game pad back to 2.

[The Gster]

Sorry, Forgot that this will stop any other games from regognising your game pad and will replace it with the Joystick, you will have to choose wich is best or change them when you need

[brinkwmj]

Yup, that's the problem!
I did try changing the controller id's, but as soon as I put the gamepad back in it "grabbed" ID 1, even though the joystick was set up as ID 1. The only way I could get it to work was to actually uninstall the gamepad completely.
What it needs is a "tickbox" in the control menu to allow you to choose joystick 2 as the preferred method of control.
Sounds easy, but I bet it isn't! How about doing it FMS? ...Please :-)