diff --git a/sdk/jme3-welcome-screen/src/Interface/WelcomeScreen.xml b/sdk/jme3-welcome-screen/src/Interface/WelcomeScreen.xml
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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<nifty xmlns="http://nifty-gui.sourceforge.net/nifty.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://nifty-gui.sourceforge.net/nifty.xsd http://nifty-gui.sourceforge.net/nifty.xsd">
-    <useStyles filename="nifty-default-styles.xml" />
-    <useControls filename="nifty-default-controls.xml" />
-    <style id="my-listbox-item-style" base="nifty-listbox-item">
-        <effect>
-            <onCustom name="updateScrollpanelPositionToDisplayElement" target="listBoxStatic" oneShot="true" />
-        </effect>
-    </style>
-
-    <!-- start screen -->
-    <screen id="start" controller="com.jme3.gde.welcome.WelcomeScreen">
-        <layer id="layer" childLayout="center">
-            <image align="center" valign="center" filename="Textures/jme-logo.png" >
-                <interact onClick="startIntro()"/>
-                <effect>
-                    <onStartScreen name="fade" startColor="#0000" endColor="#000f" length="1500" startDelay="1500"/>
-                    <onEndScreen name="imageSize" startSize="1.0" endSize="0.0" length="300" inherit="true"/>
-                </effect>
-            </image>
-        </layer>
-    </screen>
-
-    <!-- intro screen -->
-    <screen id="intro" controller="com.jme3.gde.welcome.WelcomeScreen">
-        <layer id="mainLayer" childLayout="center">
-            <panel id="mainPanel" childLayout="vertical" height="80%" width="80%" align="center" valign="center">
-                <image align="center" valign="center" filename="Textures/f1-help.png" >
-                    <effect>
-                        <onStartScreen name="imageSize" startSize="0.0" endSize="1.0" length="300" inherit="true"/>
-                        <onEndScreen name="imageSize" startSize="1.0" endSize="0.0" length="300" inherit="true"/>
-                    </effect>
-                    <interact onClick="startUpdating()"/>
-                </image>
-            </panel>
-        </layer>
-    </screen>
-
-    <!-- updating screen -->
-    <screen id="updating" controller="com.jme3.gde.welcome.WelcomeScreen">
-        <layer id="mainLayer" childLayout="center">
-            <panel id="mainPanel" childLayout="vertical" height="80%" width="80%" align="center" valign="center">
-                <image align="center" valign="center" filename="Textures/updating.png" >
-                    <effect>
-                        <onStartScreen name="imageSize" startSize="0.0" endSize="1.0" length="300" inherit="true"/>
-                        <onEndScreen name="imageSize" startSize="1.0" endSize="0.0" length="300" inherit="true"/>
-                    </effect>
-                    <interact onClick="startPlanet()"/>
-                </image>
-            </panel>
-        </layer>
-    </screen>
-
-    <!-- planet screen -->
-    <screen id="planet" controller="com.jme3.gde.welcome.WelcomeScreen">
-        <layer id="mainLayer" childLayout="center">
-            <panel id="mainPanel" childLayout="horizontal" height="100%" width="100%" align="left" valign="top">
-                <control id="quitButton" name="button" label="Close" align="left" >
-                    <interact onClick="quit()"/>
-                </control>
-                <text style="nifty-label" text="  planet shader by jME3 user jiyarza       " align="left" />
-                <panel id="mainPanel" childLayout="horizontal" align="right" valign="top">
-                </panel>
-                <control id="checkbox" name="checkbox" checked="false" align="right" />
-                <text style="nifty-label" text="dont show again   " align="right" />
-                <effect>
-                    <onStartScreen name="imageSize" startSize="0.0" endSize="1.0" length="300" inherit="true"/>
-                    <onEndScreen name="imageSize" startSize="1.0" endSize="0.0" length="300" inherit="true"/>
-                </effect>
-            </panel>
-        </layer>
-    </screen>
-</nifty>
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