Avoid the 8dir behavior correct position auto at stop?

I mean, when you have a sprite moving on any direction, if you take a diagonal movement and then stops, the 8 direction behavoir corrects automatically the position, setting it to one of the default facing left, right, up or down positions. Here is a capx for best explaining.

How to avoid it? Any suggestion?

I tried it with the keyboard and it looks like the problem is that when you're releasing the keys the last one released is counted as a movement, that's why the sprite turns to that angle, you can fix that by adding an event

if key is not down up

and key is not down down

and key is not down right

and key is not down left

sprite stop 8 direction

Thanks Lof, it's a good trick. Bad side is that you lose deceleration properties.

so here is another little trick for you:

event 1

if up+down+left+right is not down

trigger once

set golval var sAngle to sprite.angle

event 2

if up+down+left+right is not down

sprite set angle to sAngle