The net abounds with circuits showing how to connect a 5 way tactile switch using a potential divider (resistor ladder) to a PIC/Arduino etc .....good stuff.

To give you a general vibe of the sort of switch I seek, it's gonna be something like this...

http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10063

But what I (think) I need is a way of generating an interrupt for such a joystick type switch....so that when any one of thos axises are pressed, I get an interrupt - but I can't see how that can be achieved with only one switch pole 'per axis'? So I seek a space saving 5-way joystick type switch, but with one pole always closing (to generate an interrupt)...the other pole to interface with the potential divider (feeding an analogue pin)

Or am I missing something....how do others use such 5-way tactile switches? (are they not meant to be used with interrupts?).

Anyone know of a suitable metod &/or switch?