SPI backpack with other SPI devices

[JackSmiling]

I've been using your lcd backpack, in SPI mode, successfully with Arduino 22. I'm trying to convert over to Uno. I'm using your latest library. I can get your example programs to work. My problem is that I need to interface with more SPI devices than just the backpack in a sketch. When I include the SPI library my sketch, the sketch still compiles and loads but the backpack no longer works.

Looking thru your library, I notice that it looks like you don't use the SPI library for SPI comm. Is there some reason for this. How can i access other SPI devices in the same sketch when accessing your backpack?

[adafruit_support_bill]

There is a tutorial for reading infrared pulse trains from a remote control. These pulses are much shorter that what you are looking at, but the basic principles should apply:
http://www.ladyada.net/learn/sensors/ir.html#ir_remote_signals

[JackSmiling]

I went thru this exercise before and forgot. In case anybody is interested - to convert this library to use hardware SPI - you have to #include <SPI.h>, replace shiftOut(_SPIdata, _SPIclock, MSBFIRST,_SPIbuff); with SPI.transfer(_SPIbuff); and finally delete the begin(16,1); from the SPI setup routine. This worked with the old library and it seems to work just fine with the new library and Arduino 1.0

[adafruit_support_bill]

Sorry about the previous post. It was intended for a different thread.