diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/loader/mod.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/loader/mod.rs
index d26b0978..9feebc6d 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/loader/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/loader/mod.rs
@@ -708,7 +708,7 @@ impl Loader<'_> {
         self.apply_title_region(el, wrapper, self_name, dbg_name);
         // 5b · per-kind LoadXML extras (EditBox `0x779fb0`), each gated on the element's own tag,
         //      so a Frame wearing a <Button> template skips the Button steps.
-        self.apply_statusbar(el, wrapper, dbg_name);
+        self.apply_statusbar(el, wrapper, self_name, dbg_name);
         self.apply_slider(el, wrapper, self_name, dbg_name);
         self.apply_colorselect(el, wrapper, self_name, dbg_name);
         self.apply_button(el, wrapper, self_name, dbg_name);
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/loader/regions.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/loader/regions.rs
index ca3cd690..1dc413e8 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/loader/regions.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/loader/regions.rs
@@ -40,50 +40,79 @@ impl Loader<'_> {
                     ));
                     continue;
                 }
-                let rname: Option<String> = region
-                    .name()
-                    .map(|raw| framexml::resolve_name(raw, parent_name));
-                let method = if is_texture {
-                    "CreateTexture"
-                } else {
-                    "CreateFontString"
-                };
-                let region_wrapper: Table =
-                    match wrapper.call_method(method, (rname, Some(level.clone()))) {
-                        Ok(w) => w,
-                        Err(e) => {
-                            self.report.fault(format!("{dbg}: {method}: {e}"));
-                            continue;
-                        }
-                    };
-                if region.attr_bool("hidden") {
-                    if let Err(e) = region_wrapper.call_method::<()>("Hide", ()) {
-                        self.report.fault(format!("{dbg}: region Hide: {e}"));
-                    }
-                }
-                if let Some(a) = region
-                    .attr("alpha")
-                    .and_then(|v| v.trim().parse::<f32>().ok())
-                {
-                    self.call_region(&region_wrapper, "SetAlpha", a, dbg);
-                }
-                self.apply_region_layout(region, &region_wrapper, parent_name, dbg, FontAttrs::Own);
-                if is_fontstring {
-                    // Before the visual pass, so an explicit `<Color>` beats the font object's.
-                    self.apply_fontstring_font(region, &region_wrapper, dbg);
-                }
-                self.apply_region_visual(region, &region_wrapper, is_texture, dbg);
-                // The implicit creation anchor, run after the region's LoadXML as the
-                // reference does (`0x7701c0`, `0x771480`); an anchored region is left alone.
-                if let Err(e) =
-                    crate::script::implicit_creation_anchor_lua(self.lua, &region_wrapper)
-                {
-                    self.report.fault(format!("{dbg}: implicit anchor: {e}"));
-                }
+                self.build_region(region, wrapper, parent_name, &level, is_texture, dbg);
             }
         }
     }
 
+    /// The texture a widget element's child (`<BarTexture>`, `<ThumbTexture>`, a ColorSelect
+    /// texture) names, built as the shared texture adder does (`0x6f26f0`): `inherits=` expanded,
+    /// then the same region a `<Layers>` texture is, named, published, laid out, filled and given
+    /// its implicit all-points. The widget then installs the object it returns.
+    pub(super) fn build_texture_child(
+        &mut self,
+        raw: &Element,
+        wrapper: &Table,
+        parent_name: &str,
+        level: &str,
+        dbg: &str,
+    ) -> Option<Table> {
+        let expanded = self.expand_region(raw);
+        self.build_region(&expanded, wrapper, parent_name, level, true, dbg)
+    }
+
+    /// One `<Layer>` region on `wrapper`, created on `level` and loaded: its name (`$parent`
+    /// expanded, published as a global), `hidden`, `alpha`, layout, font and visual, then the
+    /// implicit creation anchor, run after the region's LoadXML as the reference does (`0x7701c0`,
+    /// `0x771480`); an anchored region is left alone. `None` when the creation raised.
+    fn build_region(
+        &mut self,
+        region: &Element,
+        wrapper: &Table,
+        parent_name: &str,
+        level: &str,
+        is_texture: bool,
+        dbg: &str,
+    ) -> Option<Table> {
+        let rname: Option<String> = region
+            .name()
+            .map(|raw| framexml::resolve_name(raw, parent_name));
+        let method = if is_texture {
+            "CreateTexture"
+        } else {
+            "CreateFontString"
+        };
+        let region_wrapper: Table =
+            match wrapper.call_method(method, (rname, Some(level.to_string()))) {
+                Ok(w) => w,
+                Err(e) => {
+                    self.report.fault(format!("{dbg}: {method}: {e}"));
+                    return None;
+                }
+            };
+        if region.attr_bool("hidden") {
+            if let Err(e) = region_wrapper.call_method::<()>("Hide", ()) {
+                self.report.fault(format!("{dbg}: region Hide: {e}"));
+            }
+        }
+        if let Some(a) = region
+            .attr("alpha")
+            .and_then(|v| v.trim().parse::<f32>().ok())
+        {
+            self.call_region(&region_wrapper, "SetAlpha", a, dbg);
+        }
+        self.apply_region_layout(region, &region_wrapper, parent_name, dbg, FontAttrs::Own);
+        if !is_texture {
+            // Before the visual pass, so an explicit `<Color>` beats the font object's.
+            self.apply_fontstring_font(region, &region_wrapper, dbg);
+        }
+        self.apply_region_visual(region, &region_wrapper, is_texture, dbg);
+        if let Err(e) = crate::script::implicit_creation_anchor_lua(self.lua, &region_wrapper) {
+            self.report.fault(format!("{dbg}: implicit anchor: {e}"));
+        }
+        Some(region_wrapper)
+    }
+
     /// A frame's direct-child `<FontString>`, its "special" string (a message frame's line font, an
     /// EditBox's text), on the OVERLAY layer.
     pub(super) fn apply_special_fontstrings(
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/loader/scripts.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/loader/scripts.rs
index af04879a..2993d897 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/loader/scripts.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/loader/scripts.rs
@@ -129,6 +129,25 @@ impl Loader<'_> {
         }
     }
 
+    /// Install the texture a widget element's child (`<BarTexture>`, `<ThumbTexture>`, a ColorSelect
+    /// texture) built as the widget's object, through the engine's own install, recording (not
+    /// propagating) any error: the Lua setters take the object too, but the loader needs no Lua
+    /// call to say it.
+    pub(super) fn install_texture(
+        &mut self,
+        wrapper: &Table,
+        tag: &str,
+        texture: &Table,
+        layer: Option<&str>,
+        dbg: &str,
+    ) {
+        if let Err(e) =
+            crate::script::install_loaded_texture(self.lua, wrapper, tag, texture, layer)
+        {
+            self.report.fault(format!("{dbg}: <{tag}>: {e}"));
+        }
+    }
+
     /// Call a region-wrapper method, recording (not propagating) any error.
     pub(super) fn call_region(
         &mut self,
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/loader/widgets.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/loader/widgets.rs
index 58db6e81..96d4baf1 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/loader/widgets.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/loader/widgets.rs
@@ -46,7 +46,13 @@ impl Loader<'_> {
 
     /// `<StatusBar>` (`0x782ef0`): a reversed `minValue`/`maxValue` pair is swapped, as
     /// `SetMinMaxValues` also does; `drawLayer` is the bar texture's layer, ARTWORK by default.
-    pub(super) fn apply_statusbar(&mut self, el: &Element, wrapper: &Table, dbg: &str) {
+    pub(super) fn apply_statusbar(
+        &mut self,
+        el: &Element,
+        wrapper: &Table,
+        self_name: &str,
+        dbg: &str,
+    ) {
         if !el.tag.eq_ignore_ascii_case("StatusBar") {
             return;
         }
@@ -63,25 +69,13 @@ impl Loader<'_> {
         if let Some(o) = el.attr("orientation") {
             self.call(wrapper, "SetOrientation", o.to_string(), dbg);
         }
-        let layer = el.attr("drawLayer").map(str::to_string);
+        let layer = el.attr("drawLayer");
         for bar in children_named(el, "BarTexture") {
-            let color = children_named(bar, "Color").next().map(color_of);
-            if let Some(file) = bar.attr("file") {
-                self.call(
-                    wrapper,
-                    "SetStatusBarTexture",
-                    (file.to_string(), layer.clone()),
-                    dbg,
-                );
-                // A `<Color>` beside `file=` is discarded, as on any texture (`0x76fe20`);
-                // `<BarColor>` is the bar's tint.
-            } else if let Some(c) = color {
-                self.call(
-                    wrapper,
-                    "SetStatusBarTexture",
-                    (c[0], c[1], c[2], c[3]),
-                    dbg,
-                );
+            // Built as any texture element is, and installed as the bar on `drawLayer`, ARTWORK
+            // without one (`0x782f12`); `<BarColor>` is the bar's tint.
+            let level = layer.unwrap_or("ARTWORK");
+            if let Some(tex) = self.build_texture_child(bar, wrapper, self_name, level, dbg) {
+                self.install_texture(wrapper, "BarTexture", &tex, layer, dbg);
             }
         }
         for bc in children_named(el, "BarColor") {
@@ -425,38 +419,14 @@ impl Loader<'_> {
                 self.call(wrapper, "SetValue", v, dbg);
             }
         }
-        let layer = el.attr("drawLayer").map(str::to_string);
+        let layer = el.attr("drawLayer");
         for raw in children_named(el, "ThumbTexture") {
-            // As for a Button's state textures: `inherits=` expands, and a named thumb is
-            // published (`ScrollFrame_OnScrollRangeChanged` reads it by name).
-            let expanded = self.expand_region(raw);
-            let tt = &expanded;
-            if let Some(file) = tt.attr("file") {
-                self.call(
-                    wrapper,
-                    "SetThumbTexture",
-                    (file.to_string(), layer.clone()),
-                    dbg,
-                );
-            } else if let Some(c) = children_named(tt, "Color").next().map(color_of) {
-                self.call(wrapper, "SetThumbTexture", (c[0], c[1], c[2], c[3]), dbg);
-            }
-            if let Ok(region) = wrapper.call_method::<Table>("GetThumbTexture", ()) {
-                if let Some(mode) = tt.attr("alphaMode") {
-                    self.call_region(&region, "SetBlendMode", mode.to_string(), dbg);
-                }
-                self.apply_region_layout(tt, &region, self_name, dbg, FontAttrs::Own);
-                if let Some(tc) = tex_coords_of(tt) {
-                    self.call_region(&region, "SetTexCoord", tc, dbg);
-                }
-                if let Some(rname) = tt.name().map(|raw| framexml::resolve_name(raw, self_name)) {
-                    crate::script::region::publish_region_name(self.lua(), &rname, &region);
-                    if let Err(e) = self.lua().globals().set(rname.clone(), region) {
-                        self.report
-                            .warnings
-                            .push(format!("{dbg}: thumb-texture global '{rname}': {e}"));
-                    }
-                }
+            // Built as any texture element is (a named thumb is published, which
+            // `ScrollFrame_OnScrollRangeChanged` reads by name), then installed as the thumb on
+            // `drawLayer`, OVERLAY without one; the install clears its anchors (`0x789893`).
+            let level = layer.unwrap_or("OVERLAY");
+            if let Some(tex) = self.build_texture_child(raw, wrapper, self_name, level, dbg) {
+                self.install_texture(wrapper, "ThumbTexture", &tex, layer, dbg);
             }
         }
     }
@@ -474,58 +444,18 @@ impl Loader<'_> {
         if !el.tag.eq_ignore_ascii_case("ColorSelect") {
             return;
         }
-        let layer = el.attr("drawLayer").map(str::to_string);
-        for (tag, setter, getter) in [
-            (
-                "ColorWheelTexture",
-                "SetColorWheelTexture",
-                "GetColorWheelTexture",
-            ),
-            (
-                "ColorWheelThumbTexture",
-                "SetColorWheelThumbTexture",
-                "GetColorWheelThumbTexture",
-            ),
-            (
-                "ColorValueTexture",
-                "SetColorValueTexture",
-                "GetColorValueTexture",
-            ),
-            (
-                "ColorValueThumbTexture",
-                "SetColorValueThumbTexture",
-                "GetColorValueThumbTexture",
-            ),
+        for (tag, level) in [
+            ("ColorWheelTexture", "ARTWORK"),
+            ("ColorWheelThumbTexture", "OVERLAY"),
+            ("ColorValueTexture", "ARTWORK"),
+            ("ColorValueThumbTexture", "OVERLAY"),
         ] {
             for raw in children_named(el, tag) {
-                let expanded = self.expand_region(raw);
-                let tt = &expanded;
-                if let Some(file) = tt.attr("file") {
-                    self.call(wrapper, setter, (file.to_string(), layer.clone()), dbg);
-                } else if let Some(c) = children_named(tt, "Color").next().map(color_of) {
-                    self.call(wrapper, setter, (c[0], c[1], c[2], c[3]), dbg);
-                } else {
-                    self.call(wrapper, setter, (), dbg);
-                }
-                if let Ok(region) = wrapper.call_method::<Table>(getter, ()) {
-                    if let Some(mode) = tt.attr("alphaMode") {
-                        self.call_region(&region, "SetBlendMode", mode.to_string(), dbg);
-                    }
-                    self.apply_region_layout(tt, &region, self_name, dbg, FontAttrs::Own);
-                    if let Some(tc) = tex_coords_of(tt) {
-                        self.call_region(&region, "SetTexCoord", tc, dbg);
-                    }
-                    if let Some(rname) = tt.name().map(|raw| framexml::resolve_name(raw, self_name))
-                    {
-                        // Published both ways: the stock `<ColorValueTexture>` anchors to
-                        // `ColorPickerWheel` by name.
-                        crate::script::region::publish_region_name(self.lua(), &rname, &region);
-                        if let Err(e) = self.lua().globals().set(rname.clone(), region) {
-                            self.report
-                                .warnings
-                                .push(format!("{dbg}: {tag} global '{rname}': {e}"));
-                        }
-                    }
+                // The element has no `drawLayer` (`0x78b3f0` never reads it): the slot links its
+                // texture on its own layer. The wheel and the strip are painted by the client
+                // whatever file or colour the element names (`0x770300`).
+                if let Some(tex) = self.build_texture_child(raw, wrapper, self_name, level, dbg) {
+                    self.install_texture(wrapper, tag, &tex, None, dbg);
                 }
             }
         }
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/button.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/button.rs
index f3746935..f0df458a 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/button.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/button.rs
@@ -45,17 +45,37 @@ impl Slot {
     }
 
     /// The three state slots go through [`ButtonState::set_state_slot`] (`0x778fd0`), which also
-    /// shows the texture when it is the current state's; the others are plain fields.
-    fn set(self, bs: &mut ButtonState, rh: Option<crate::widget::RegionHandle>) {
+    /// shows the texture when it is the current state's, and the two checked slots refresh the
+    /// pair (`0x7854c0` from `0x785330`/`0x785440`); the others are plain fields. The bits the
+    /// store writes come back for the caller to apply.
+    fn set(
+        self,
+        bs: &mut ButtonState,
+        rh: Option<crate::widget::RegionHandle>,
+    ) -> crate::widget::ShownWrites {
         match self {
-            Slot::Normal => bs.set_state_slot(ButtonVisualState::Normal, rh),
-            Slot::Pushed => bs.set_state_slot(ButtonVisualState::Pushed, rh),
-            Slot::Disabled => bs.set_state_slot(ButtonVisualState::Disabled, rh),
+            Slot::Normal => return bs.set_state_slot(ButtonVisualState::Normal, rh),
+            Slot::Pushed => return bs.set_state_slot(ButtonVisualState::Pushed, rh),
+            Slot::Disabled => return bs.set_state_slot(ButtonVisualState::Disabled, rh),
             Slot::Highlight => bs.highlight = rh,
-            Slot::Checked => bs.checked_tex = rh,
-            Slot::DisabledChecked => bs.disabled_checked = rh,
+            Slot::Checked => {
+                bs.checked_tex = rh;
+                return bs.refresh_checked(bs.checked, true);
+            }
+            Slot::DisabledChecked => {
+                bs.disabled_checked = rh;
+                return bs.refresh_checked(bs.checked, true);
+            }
             Slot::Text => bs.text = rh,
         }
+        crate::widget::ShownWrites::default()
+    }
+
+    /// The link's third argument (`0x77fd10`): every slot links its texture shown (the highlight
+    /// `0x779139`, the label `0x778d49`) but the state and checked ones, which pass 0 and are
+    /// shown by the switch that follows.
+    fn links_shown(self) -> bool {
+        matches!(self, Slot::Highlight | Slot::Text)
     }
 
     /// The region kind and default layer: state textures under the label, the highlight in its own
@@ -192,6 +212,19 @@ fn with_button<T>(
     }
 }
 
+/// [`with_button`] for a state machine call that writes shown bits: the writes land in the regions
+/// once the button's borrow is released.
+fn with_button_shown(
+    lua: &Lua,
+    this: &Table,
+    f: impl FnOnce(&mut ButtonState) -> crate::widget::ShownWrites,
+) -> mlua::Result<()> {
+    let writes = with_button(lua, this, f)?;
+    let mut model = lua.app_data_mut::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
+    super::region::apply_shown_writes(&mut model, writes);
+    Ok(())
+}
+
 /// `Enable()`/`Disable()`. `Disable` (`0x77ffd0`) reaches `SetEnabled` (`0x779160`), which also
 /// turns draw layer 4, HIGHLIGHT, off (`0x7791bb`) in the array `DisableDrawLayer` writes, so every
 /// region in that layer goes dark, not only the HighlightTexture. `Enable()` here turns it back
@@ -204,7 +237,7 @@ fn set_enabled(lua: &Lua, this: &Table, on: bool) -> mlua::Result<()> {
         .arena
         .frame_mut(h)
         .ok_or_else(|| mlua::Error::runtime("stale frame handle"))?;
-    match &mut frame.kind_state {
+    let writes = match &mut frame.kind_state {
         KindState::Button(bs) => bs.set_enabled(on),
         _ => return Err(mlua::Error::runtime("not a Button")),
     };
@@ -214,18 +247,23 @@ fn set_enabled(lua: &Lua, this: &Table, on: bool) -> mlua::Result<()> {
     } else {
         frame.disabled_layers |= bit;
     }
+    super::region::apply_shown_writes(&mut model, writes);
     Ok(())
 }
 
 /// Run an engine state edge over frame `h` if it is a live Button. The reference has six, all of
 /// `0x779790`'s call sites but Lua's: enable, disable, hide, press, release and drag start; the
 /// cursor entering or leaving a button is not one.
-pub(super) fn edge(model: &mut Model, h: FrameHandle, f: impl FnOnce(&mut ButtonState)) {
-    if let Some(frame) = model.arena.frame_mut(h) {
-        if let KindState::Button(bs) = &mut frame.kind_state {
-            f(bs);
-        }
-    }
+pub(super) fn edge(
+    model: &mut Model,
+    h: FrameHandle,
+    f: impl FnOnce(&mut ButtonState) -> crate::widget::ShownWrites,
+) {
+    let writes = match model.arena.frame_mut(h).map(|f| &mut f.kind_state) {
+        Some(KindState::Button(bs)) => f(bs),
+        _ => return,
+    };
+    super::region::apply_shown_writes(model, writes);
 }
 
 /// Whether a hover edge on `h` reaches the base notify, the HIGHLIGHT layer and the Lua
@@ -283,13 +321,21 @@ fn ensure_slot(lua: &Lua, this: &Table, slot: Slot) -> mlua::Result<u32> {
                 .arena
                 .create_region(h, kind, layer, 0)
                 .ok_or_else(|| mlua::Error::runtime("stale frame handle"))?;
-            model.region_data.insert(rh, RegionData::default());
+            // Born with its shown bit clear, as `0x76fc40` zeroes it; the link writes the slot's
+            // own (`0x77fd10`), and the store shows a current state's texture (`0x779037`).
+            model.region_data.insert(
+                rh,
+                RegionData {
+                    hidden: !slot.links_shown(),
+                    ..RegionData::default()
+                },
+            );
             model.touch_layout_region(rh);
-            if let Some(frame) = model.arena.frame_mut(h) {
-                if let KindState::Button(bs) = &mut frame.kind_state {
-                    slot.set(bs, Some(rh));
-                }
-            }
+            let writes = match model.arena.frame_mut(h).map(|f| &mut f.kind_state) {
+                Some(KindState::Button(bs)) => slot.set(bs, Some(rh)),
+                _ => Default::default(),
+            };
+            super::region::apply_shown_writes(&mut model, writes);
             // Only a new region gets an implicit anchor: a state texture fills the button
             // (`0x778f9d`/`0x7790db`), a label goes to the adopter (`0x778dc0` → `0x778d20`).
             match slot {
@@ -320,11 +366,13 @@ fn install_slot(
     ) {
         return Err(mlua::Error::runtime("not a Button"));
     }
-    super::region::install_into_slot(
+    let writes = std::cell::RefCell::new(crate::widget::ShownWrites::default());
+    let changed = super::region::install_into_slot(
         &mut model,
         h,
         incoming,
         slot.shape().1,
+        slot.links_shown(),
         false,
         |ks| match ks {
             KindState::Button(bs) => slot.get(bs),
@@ -332,10 +380,12 @@ fn install_slot(
         },
         |ks, rh| {
             if let KindState::Button(bs) = ks {
-                slot.set(bs, rh);
+                *writes.borrow_mut() = slot.set(bs, rh);
             }
         },
-    )
+    )?;
+    super::region::apply_shown_writes(&mut model, writes.into_inner());
+    Ok(changed)
 }
 
 /// `Set<State>Texture(texture | "path" | nil)`, forked on the argument's type (`0x781970`). The
@@ -360,14 +410,16 @@ fn set_slot_texture(
             .unwrap_or(crate::script::BlendMode::Add),
         _ => crate::script::BlendMode::Add,
     });
-    match args.front() {
-        // A Texture object is itself installed into the slot (`0x781b0b` → `0x778fd0`; the
-        // highlight's `0x781eb7` → `0x779110`, which also sets its blend, `0x779144`, unless it
-        // is the same texture, `0x779122`). Any other widget raises (`0x781ab1`, message
-        // `0x87a1e0`; the highlight's `0x87a28c`).
-        Some(Value::Table(t)) => {
-            let method = usage.split('(').next().unwrap_or(usage);
-            let rh = super::region::texture_object_arg(lua, this, t, method)?;
+    // A Texture object is itself installed into the slot (`0x781b0b` → `0x778fd0`; the highlight's
+    // `0x781eb7` → `0x779110`, which also sets its blend, `0x779144`, unless it is the same
+    // texture, `0x779122`). Any other widget raises (`0x781ab1`, message `0x87a1e0`; the
+    // highlight's `0x87a28c`). nil clears the slot and destroys the old region (`0x781b5a` →
+    // `0x778fd0`): unhooked but alive, it would draw in every state. A string or a number is a
+    // path (`0x781b33`, `lua_tostring` converting a number as `%.14g`); no argument is not nil
+    // (`0x781b4f`) and raises the usage.
+    let method = usage.split('(').next().unwrap_or(usage);
+    let path = match super::region::slot_arg(lua, this, args, usage, method, true)? {
+        super::region::SlotArg::Object(rh) => {
             if install_slot(lua, this, slot, Some(rh))? {
                 if let Some(blend) = blend {
                     lua.app_data_mut::<Model>()
@@ -380,31 +432,8 @@ fn set_slot_texture(
             }
             return Ok(());
         }
-        // nil clears the slot and destroys the old region (`0x781b5a` → `0x778fd0`): unhooked but
-        // alive, it would draw in every state. No argument is not nil (`0x781b4f`) and clears
-        // nothing.
-        Some(Value::Nil) => return install_slot(lua, this, slot, None).map(|_| ()),
-        _ => {}
-    }
-
-    // `lua_tostring` (`0x781b33`): a number converts as `%.14g`, as the stack's coercion does.
-    let path = match args.front() {
-        Some(v @ (Value::String(_) | Value::Number(_) | Value::Integer(_))) => {
-            lua.coerce_string(v.clone())?.map(|s| s.to_string_lossy())
-        }
-        _ => None,
-    };
-    let Some(path) = path else {
-        let who = {
-            let h = frame_handle_of(lua, this)?;
-            let model = lua.app_data_ref::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
-            model
-                .arena
-                .frame(h)
-                .and_then(|f| f.name.clone())
-                .unwrap_or_else(|| "<unnamed>".to_string())
-        };
-        return Err(mlua::Error::runtime(format!("Usage: {who}:{usage}")));
+        super::region::SlotArg::Clear => return install_slot(lua, this, slot, None).map(|_| ()),
+        super::region::SlotArg::Path(path) => path,
     };
     let id = ensure_slot(lua, this, slot)?;
     let mut model = lua.app_data_mut::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
@@ -570,7 +599,7 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
                 // Destroyed, not orphaned (`0x778d3c`).
                 super::region::free_region(&mut model, dead);
             }
-            super::region::link_region(&mut model, rh, owner, DrawLayer::Artwork);
+            super::region::link_region(&mut model, rh, owner, DrawLayer::Artwork, true);
             adopt_label(&mut model, owner, rh);
             // A new owner, so a new scale for its node, and `GetTextWidth` reads its extents.
             model.touch_layout_region(rh);
@@ -830,7 +859,7 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
             };
             let first = lock.into_iter().next();
             let locked = super::binding_abi::bool_or_default(first.as_ref(), false);
-            with_button(lua, &this, |bs| bs.set_button_state(new, locked))
+            with_button_shown(lua, &this, |bs| bs.set_button_state(new, locked))
         })?,
     )?;
     m.set(
@@ -888,7 +917,7 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
                 }),
                 _ => false,
             };
-            with_button(lua, &this, |bs| bs.checked = checked)
+            with_button_shown(lua, &this, |bs| bs.refresh_checked(checked, false))
         })?,
     )?;
     c.set(
@@ -978,21 +1007,25 @@ pub(super) fn click_button(lua: &Lua, id: u32, button: &str, down: bool, scripte
             return;
         };
         let is_check = frame.kind == FrameKind::CheckButton;
-        match &mut frame.kind_state {
+        let (fire, writes) = match &mut frame.kind_state {
             // A Button fires only while enabled;
             KindState::Button(bs) => {
                 if bs.enabled() {
-                    if is_check {
-                        bs.checked = !bs.checked;
-                    }
-                    true
+                    let writes = if is_check {
+                        bs.refresh_checked(!bs.checked, false)
+                    } else {
+                        Default::default()
+                    };
+                    (true, writes)
                 } else {
-                    false
+                    (false, Default::default())
                 }
             }
             // any other kind with an `OnClick` just fires.
-            _ => true,
-        }
+            _ => (true, Default::default()),
+        };
+        super::region::apply_shown_writes(&mut model, writes);
+        fire
     };
     if !fire {
         return;
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/colorselect.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/colorselect.rs
index 4d3dfa74..9fedd46c 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/colorselect.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/colorselect.rs
@@ -8,13 +8,15 @@
 
 use mlua::{Lua, Table, Value};
 
-use super::object::{draw_layer_from_str, frame_handle_of};
+use super::object::frame_handle_of;
 use super::pointer::point_in_rect;
-use super::region::{install_into_slot, region_wrapper, texture_object_arg};
-use super::{event, Model, RegionData};
+use super::region::{
+    install_into_slot, new_texture_region, region_wrapper, set_texture_path, slot_arg, SlotArg,
+};
+use super::{event, Model};
 use crate::layout::Rect;
 use crate::order::DrawLayer;
-use crate::widget::{ColorSelectState, FrameHandle, KindState, RegionHandle, RegionKind};
+use crate::widget::{ColorSelectState, FrameHandle, KindState, RegionHandle};
 
 /// Registry key of the ColorSelect method table (the MAXCSTACK discipline: a Lua-side root).
 pub(super) const REG_COLORSELECT_METHODS: &str = "__benilla_colorselect_methods";
@@ -58,16 +60,6 @@ impl Slot {
         }
     }
 
-    fn set(self, s: &mut ColorSelectState, rh: RegionHandle) {
-        let slot = match self {
-            Slot::Wheel => &mut s.wheel,
-            Slot::WheelThumb => &mut s.wheel_thumb,
-            Slot::ValueStrip => &mut s.value_strip,
-            Slot::ValueThumb => &mut s.value_thumb,
-        };
-        *slot = Some(rh);
-    }
-
     fn set_opt(self, s: &mut ColorSelectState, rh: Option<RegionHandle>) {
         match self {
             Slot::Wheel => s.wheel = rh,
@@ -87,58 +79,34 @@ impl Slot {
     }
 }
 
-/// Get-or-create one slot's texture region, `layer` re-layering an existing one; returns its id.
-fn ensure_slot(lua: &Lua, this: &Table, slot: Slot, layer: Option<DrawLayer>) -> mlua::Result<u32> {
-    let h = frame_handle_of(lua, this)?;
-    let mut model = lua.app_data_mut::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
+impl Slot {
+    /// Whether the slot has a path leg: the markers do (`0x78b7b0`), the wheel and the strip take
+    /// an object or nil alone (`0x78de90`, `0x78e450`).
+    fn has_path_leg(self) -> bool {
+        matches!(self, Slot::WheelThumb | Slot::ValueThumb)
+    }
 
-    let existing = match &model
-        .arena
-        .frame(h)
-        .ok_or_else(|| mlua::Error::runtime("stale frame handle"))?
-        .kind_state
-    {
-        KindState::ColorSelect(s) => slot.get(s),
-        _ => return Err(mlua::Error::runtime("not a ColorSelect")),
-    };
-
-    let rh = match existing {
-        Some(rh) => {
-            if let (Some(l), Some(region)) = (layer, model.arena.region_mut(rh)) {
-                region.draw_layer = l;
-            }
-            rh
-        }
-        None => {
-            let rh = model
-                .arena
-                .create_region(h, RegionKind::Texture, layer.unwrap_or(slot.layer()), 0)
-                .ok_or_else(|| mlua::Error::runtime("stale frame handle"))?;
-            model.region_data.insert(rh, RegionData::default());
-            model.touch_layout_region(rh);
-            if let Some(frame) = model.arena.frame_mut(h) {
-                if let KindState::ColorSelect(s) = &mut frame.kind_state {
-                    slot.set(s, rh);
-                }
-            }
-            rh
-        }
-    };
-    Ok(model.region_id(rh))
+    fn of_tag(tag: &str) -> Option<Slot> {
+        Some(match tag {
+            "ColorWheelTexture" => Slot::Wheel,
+            "ColorWheelThumbTexture" => Slot::WheelThumb,
+            "ColorValueTexture" => Slot::ValueStrip,
+            "ColorValueThumbTexture" => Slot::ValueThumb,
+            _ => return None,
+        })
+    }
 }
 
 /// Install `incoming` into `slot`, or clear it, through the slot hooks: the wheel `0x78b580` and
 /// the strip `0x78b8a0` link on ARTWORK and replace the texture's image with the generated one
 /// (`0x770300`), so it ends file-less here, where the renderer paints it; the markers
 /// `0x78b850`/`0x78ba90` link on OVERLAY and clear their anchors (`0x767ed0`).
-fn install_slot(
-    lua: &Lua,
-    this: &Table,
+fn install_slot_model(
+    model: &mut Model,
+    h: FrameHandle,
     slot: Slot,
     incoming: Option<RegionHandle>,
 ) -> mlua::Result<()> {
-    let h = frame_handle_of(lua, this)?;
-    let mut model = lua.app_data_mut::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
     if !matches!(
         model.arena.frame(h).map(|f| &f.kind_state),
         Some(KindState::ColorSelect(_))
@@ -147,10 +115,11 @@ fn install_slot(
     }
     let thumb = matches!(slot, Slot::WheelThumb | Slot::ValueThumb);
     let changed = install_into_slot(
-        &mut model,
+        model,
         h,
         incoming,
         slot.layer(),
+        true,
         thumb,
         |ks| match ks {
             KindState::ColorSelect(s) => slot.get(s),
@@ -164,14 +133,56 @@ fn install_slot(
     )?;
     // The same texture returned at the first compare (`0x78b598`) and keeps what it was set to.
     if let (true, Some(rh), false) = (changed, incoming, thumb) {
-        super::region::clear_texture(&mut model, rh);
+        super::region::clear_texture(model, rh);
     }
     Ok(())
 }
 
-/// `Set<Slot>Texture([path [, drawLayer]] | r, g, b [, a])`, plus an empty form that only creates
-/// the region: what `<ColorWheelTexture/>` means. A file-less slot is where the app renderer paints
-/// the disc and strip the reference computes (`0x78b580`, `0x78b8a0`).
+/// A ColorSelect element's texture child (`0x78b3f0`): the texture the texture adder built,
+/// installed as the slot's object. The wheel and the strip are painted by the renderer whatever
+/// file or colour the element names.
+pub(super) fn install_loaded(
+    model: &mut Model,
+    h: FrameHandle,
+    tag: &str,
+    rh: RegionHandle,
+) -> mlua::Result<()> {
+    let slot = Slot::of_tag(tag)
+        .ok_or_else(|| mlua::Error::runtime(format!("not a ColorSelect texture: {tag}")))?;
+    install_slot_model(model, h, slot, Some(rh))
+}
+
+/// A marker's path leg (`0x78b7b0`): a marker that exists has its file swapped and nothing else;
+/// with none, a texture is built, given the file and installed.
+fn set_marker_path(lua: &Lua, this: &Table, slot: Slot, path: &str) -> mlua::Result<()> {
+    let h = frame_handle_of(lua, this)?;
+    let mut model = lua.app_data_mut::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
+    let existing = match &model
+        .arena
+        .frame(h)
+        .ok_or_else(|| mlua::Error::runtime("stale frame handle"))?
+        .kind_state
+    {
+        KindState::ColorSelect(s) => slot.get(s),
+        _ => return Err(mlua::Error::runtime("not a ColorSelect")),
+    };
+    match existing {
+        Some(rh) => set_texture_path(&mut model, rh, path),
+        None => {
+            let rh = new_texture_region(&mut model, h, slot.layer())
+                .ok_or_else(|| mlua::Error::runtime("stale frame handle"))?;
+            set_texture_path(&mut model, rh, path);
+            install_slot_model(&mut model, h, slot, Some(rh))?;
+        }
+    }
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+/// `Set<Slot>Texture(texture or "texture" or nil)` for the markers (`0x78e160`, `0x78e720`), a
+/// path leg beside the object and nil ones; the wheel and the strip (`0x78de90`, `0x78e450`) have
+/// `(texture or nil)` alone. No argument raises the usage, and there is no colour form. A file-less
+/// wheel or strip is where the app renderer paints the disc and strip the reference computes
+/// (`0x78b580`, `0x78b8a0`).
 fn install_slot_texture(
     lua: &Lua,
     m: &Table,
@@ -180,53 +191,27 @@ fn install_slot_texture(
     getter: &str,
 ) -> mlua::Result<()> {
     let method = setter.to_string();
+    let usage = if slot.has_path_leg() {
+        format!(r#"{setter}(texture or "texture" or nil)"#)
+    } else {
+        format!("{setter}(texture or nil)")
+    };
     m.set(
         setter,
         lua.create_function(move |lua, (this, args): (Table, mlua::MultiValue)| {
-            let nil = Value::Nil;
-            let arg = |i: usize| args.get(i).unwrap_or(&nil);
-            let (a1, a2, a3, a4) = (arg(0), arg(1), arg(2), arg(3));
-            let layer = match a2 {
-                Value::String(s) => s.to_str().ok().and_then(|l| draw_layer_from_str(&l)),
-                _ => None,
-            };
-            match args.front() {
-                Some(Value::Table(t)) => {
-                    let rh = texture_object_arg(lua, &this, t, &method)?;
-                    return install_slot(lua, &this, slot, Some(rh));
+            let arg = slot_arg(lua, &this, &args, &usage, &method, slot.has_path_leg())?;
+            let h = frame_handle_of(lua, &this)?;
+            match arg {
+                SlotArg::Object(rh) => {
+                    let mut model = lua.app_data_mut::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
+                    install_slot_model(&mut model, h, slot, Some(rh))
                 }
-                Some(Value::Nil) => return install_slot(lua, &this, slot, None),
-                _ => {}
+                SlotArg::Clear => {
+                    let mut model = lua.app_data_mut::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
+                    install_slot_model(&mut model, h, slot, None)
+                }
+                SlotArg::Path(path) => set_marker_path(lua, &this, slot, &path),
             }
-            let id = ensure_slot(lua, &this, slot, layer)?;
-            let rh = {
-                let model = lua.app_data_ref::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
-                *model.id_to_region.get(&id).expect("colorselect region id")
-            };
-            let mut model = lua.app_data_mut::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
-            let data = model.region_data.entry(rh).or_default();
-            match a1 {
-                Value::String(s) => {
-                    data.texture = Some(s.to_str()?.to_string());
-                    data.fill = None;
-                }
-                Value::Number(_) | Value::Integer(_) => {
-                    data.texture = None;
-                    data.fill = Some([
-                        num_f32(a1),
-                        num_f32(a2),
-                        num_f32(a3),
-                        match a4 {
-                            Value::Nil => 1.0,
-                            v => num_f32(v),
-                        },
-                    ]);
-                }
-                // The empty form: the region now exists and stays file-less.
-                _ => {}
-            }
-            model.touch_layout_art(rh);
-            Ok(())
         })?,
     )?;
     m.set(
@@ -246,14 +231,6 @@ fn install_slot_texture(
     Ok(())
 }
 
-fn num_f32(v: &Value) -> f32 {
-    match v {
-        Value::Number(n) => *n as f32,
-        Value::Integer(i) => *i as f32,
-        _ => 0.0,
-    }
-}
-
 pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
     let m = lua.create_table()?;
 
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/extract.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/extract.rs
index f7fab792..165d68a6 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/extract.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/extract.rs
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ impl UiScript {
                             });
                         }
                     }
-                    // A Button's non-current state textures emit no quad, and its ButtonText takes
+                    // A Button's state textures draw by their shown bit like any region, and its ButtonText takes
                     // the current state's font instance (disabled > highlighted > normal).
                     let mut state_font: Option<&FontObject> = None;
                     let mut state_color: Option<[f32; 4]> = None;
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ impl UiScript {
                         let hovered = owner.is_some() && model.mouseover == owner;
                         // The press is not read here: the state texture latches on the transition
                         // (`ButtonState::set_state`). Only the Highlight, unlatched, reads hover.
-                        if !bs.region_visible(rh, hovered) {
+                        if !bs.highlight_draws(rh, hovered) {
                             continue;
                         }
                         if bs.text == Some(rh) {
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/mod.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/mod.rs
index 2df4a06f..451203bd 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/mod.rs
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ pub use quest::{
     QuestAction, QuestItemView, QuestPanel, QuestRewardSpell, QuestSelect, QuestState,
 };
 pub use quest_log::{QuestLogDetail, QuestLogEntryView, QuestLogObjectiveView, QuestLogState};
-pub(crate) use region::{apply_font_parts, implicit_creation_anchor_lua};
+pub(crate) use region::{apply_font_parts, implicit_creation_anchor_lua, install_loaded_texture};
 pub use reputation::{FactionEntry, ReputationSend, ReputationState};
 pub use session::SessionRequest;
 pub use shapeshift::ShapeshiftFormView;
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/region.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/region.rs
index 0b502e4f..2b3d03c5 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/region.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/region.rs
@@ -63,18 +63,19 @@ pub(super) fn texture_object_arg(
 /// out of the old parent (its region-removed hook runs, `0x77fd55`) and into `owner` on `layer`,
 /// the layer set whether or not the parent changed (`0x77fd9a`).
 ///
-/// The third argument is the region's own shown bit (`+0xc4`, what `IsShown` reads): leaving the
-/// old parent clears it (`0x77fd3d`) and `shown` writes it back (`0x77fd85`, `0x77fdc8`). Every
-/// widget that takes a texture calls with 1 (the bar, thumb, highlight, ColorSelect slots, the
-/// label) except a Button's state and checked slots, whose 0 is followed by the state switch
-/// writing the bit for the texture that shows (`0x779037`, `0x7797ea`, `0x785538`). benilla keeps
-/// that state side in [`crate::widget::ButtonState::region_visible`], so those too end with the
-/// script-side bit shown, and `IsShown` reads the state side beside it.
+/// The third argument is the region's own shown bit (`+0xc4`, what `Show`/`Hide` write and
+/// `IsShown` reads): leaving the old parent clears it (`0x77fd3d`) and `shown` writes it back
+/// (`0x77fd85`, `0x77fdc8`, and `0x77fdd9` clears it when the parent and layer stand). Every widget
+/// that takes a texture calls with 1 (the bar, thumb, highlight, ColorSelect slots, the label)
+/// except a Button's state and checked slots, whose 0 is followed by the state switch writing the
+/// bit for the texture that shows (`0x779037`, `0x7797ea`, `0x785538`): the caller applies those
+/// writes after the link.
 pub(super) fn link_region(
     model: &mut Model,
     rh: RegionHandle,
     owner: crate::widget::FrameHandle,
     layer: crate::order::DrawLayer,
+    shown: bool,
 ) {
     if model.arena.set_region_owner(rh, Some(owner)) {
         // The owner supplies the region's scale to layout, so a re-link is a layout change.
@@ -83,20 +84,32 @@ pub(super) fn link_region(
     if let Some(r) = model.arena.region_mut(rh) {
         r.draw_layer = layer;
     }
-    model.region_data.entry(rh).or_default().hidden = false;
+    model.region_data.entry(rh).or_default().hidden = !shown;
+}
+
+/// Apply a Button state machine's writes to the regions' shown bit, the one `Show`/`Hide` write.
+/// A region the machine names that has since been freed is skipped.
+pub(super) fn apply_shown_writes(model: &mut Model, writes: crate::widget::ShownWrites) {
+    for (rh, shown) in writes.0 {
+        if model.arena.region(rh).is_some() {
+            model.region_data.entry(rh).or_default().hidden = !shown;
+        }
+    }
 }
 
 /// A widget's one-texture slot taking `incoming` (a Texture object, or nothing to clear), as every
 /// slot setter does (`0x778fd0`, `0x7831f0`, `0x789860`, `0x785330`, `0x78b580`..): the same
 /// texture is a no-op, the displaced one is deleted, the incoming one is linked in on `layer`
 /// (a thumb marker then loses its anchors, `0x767ed0`, since the widget places it), then it is
-/// stored. `get` and `set` read and write the slot in the widget's own state. Answers whether the
-/// slot changed, for a caller whose hook does more once it has.
+/// stored. `shown` is the link's third argument (see [`link_region`]). `get` and `set` read and
+/// write the slot in the widget's own state. Answers whether the slot changed, for a caller whose
+/// hook does more once it has.
 pub(super) fn install_into_slot(
     model: &mut Model,
     owner: crate::widget::FrameHandle,
     incoming: Option<RegionHandle>,
     layer: crate::order::DrawLayer,
+    shown: bool,
     clear_points: bool,
     get: impl Fn(&crate::widget::KindState) -> Option<RegionHandle>,
     set: impl Fn(&mut crate::widget::KindState, Option<RegionHandle>),
@@ -113,7 +126,7 @@ pub(super) fn install_into_slot(
         free_region(model, old);
     }
     if let Some(rh) = incoming {
-        link_region(model, rh, owner, layer);
+        link_region(model, rh, owner, layer, shown);
         if clear_points {
             layout::clear_points(model, rh);
         }
@@ -129,21 +142,99 @@ pub(super) fn install_into_slot(
     Ok(true)
 }
 
-/// The region's shown bit as `IsShown` reads it (`0x79b9b0`, `[+0xc4]`): its own `Show`/`Hide`,
-/// and for a Button's state and checked textures also the state side that writes the bit for the
-/// one that shows.
+/// What a widget's texture setter was handed (`SetStatusBarTexture` `0x78f870`, `SetThumbTexture`
+/// `0x7902b0`, `SetNormalTexture` `0x781970`, the ColorSelect four): a Texture object, a path, or
+/// nil to clear.
+pub(super) enum SlotArg {
+    Object(RegionHandle),
+    Path(String),
+    Clear,
+}
+
+/// The setter's fork on its first argument. A table is a Texture object (`lua_type` 5), a string
+/// or a number a path where the setter has a path leg (`lua_isstring` `0x6f3510`, then
+/// `lua_tostring` `0x6f3690`, so `1` is the file `"1"`), nil (type 0) clears; anything else, no
+/// argument included (type -1), raises `Usage: <name>:<usage>`. `object_method` names the setter in
+/// the object leg's two raises, as each setter's own format string prints it.
+pub(super) fn slot_arg(
+    lua: &Lua,
+    this: &Table,
+    args: &MultiValue,
+    usage: &str,
+    object_method: &str,
+    path_leg: bool,
+) -> mlua::Result<SlotArg> {
+    match args.front() {
+        Some(Value::Table(t)) => {
+            return texture_object_arg(lua, this, t, object_method).map(SlotArg::Object)
+        }
+        Some(Value::Nil) => return Ok(SlotArg::Clear),
+        Some(v @ (Value::String(_) | Value::Number(_) | Value::Integer(_))) if path_leg => {
+            if let Some(path) = lua.coerce_string(v.clone())? {
+                return Ok(SlotArg::Path(path.to_string_lossy()));
+            }
+        }
+        _ => {}
+    }
+    let who = {
+        let model = lua.app_data_ref::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
+        super::object::frame_handle_of(lua, this)
+            .ok()
+            .and_then(|h| model.arena.frame(h).and_then(|f| f.name.clone()))
+            .unwrap_or_else(|| "<unnamed>".to_string())
+    };
+    Err(mlua::Error::runtime(format!("Usage: {who}:{usage}")))
+}
+
+/// A fresh anchorless Texture region of `owner` on `layer`, as the client builds the texture a
+/// path leg loads (`0x76fc40`) before it installs it as an object.
+pub(super) fn new_texture_region(
+    model: &mut Model,
+    owner: crate::widget::FrameHandle,
+    layer: crate::order::DrawLayer,
+) -> Option<RegionHandle> {
+    let rh = model
+        .arena
+        .create_region(owner, RegionKind::Texture, layer, 0)?;
+    model.region_data.insert(rh, super::RegionData::default());
+    model.touch_layout_region(rh);
+    Some(rh)
+}
+
+/// `CSimpleTexture::SetTexture(path)` (`0x770200`) on a region: the file replaces a solid fill, and
+/// `""` clears the texture, which `QuestLogFrame.lua:165` relies on.
+pub(super) fn set_texture_path(model: &mut Model, rh: RegionHandle, path: &str) {
+    let data = model.region_data.entry(rh).or_default();
+    data.texture = (!path.is_empty()).then(|| path.to_string());
+    data.fill = None;
+    model.touch_layout_art(rh);
+}
+
+/// The loader's install of the texture a `<BarTexture>`, `<ThumbTexture>` or ColorSelect texture
+/// element (`tag`) built, as the widget's object, never through a Lua setter. `layer` is the
+/// element's `drawLayer` for the bar and the thumb.
+pub(crate) fn install_loaded_texture(
+    lua: &Lua,
+    this: &Table,
+    tag: &str,
+    texture: &Table,
+    layer: Option<&str>,
+) -> mlua::Result<()> {
+    let h = super::object::frame_handle_of(lua, this)?;
+    let rh = texture_object_arg(lua, this, texture, "SetStatusBarTexture")?;
+    let layer = layer.and_then(super::object::draw_layer_from_str);
+    let mut model = lua.app_data_mut::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
+    match tag {
+        "BarTexture" => super::statusbar::install_loaded(&mut model, h, rh, layer),
+        "ThumbTexture" => super::slider::install_loaded(&mut model, h, rh, layer),
+        _ => super::colorselect::install_loaded(&mut model, h, tag, rh),
+    }
+}
+
+/// The region's shown bit (`+0xc4`) as `IsShown` reads it (`0x79b9b0`): the one bit `Show`/`Hide`
+/// write, and a Button's state switch writes for its state and checked textures.
 fn region_shown(model: &Model, rh: RegionHandle) -> bool {
-    if model.region_data.get(&rh).is_some_and(|d| d.hidden) {
-        return false;
-    }
-    let owner = model.arena.region(rh).map(|r| r.owner);
-    match owner
-        .and_then(|o| model.arena.frame(o))
-        .map(|f| &f.kind_state)
-    {
-        Some(crate::widget::KindState::Button(bs)) => bs.state_region_shown(rh).unwrap_or(true),
-        _ => true,
-    }
+    !model.region_data.get(&rh).is_some_and(|d| d.hidden)
 }
 
 /// Argument 1 of a global that takes a Texture as its `this` (`SetLootPortrait` `0x4c2b40`,
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/region/paint.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/region/paint.rs
index bbaadf4c..d15f671a 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/region/paint.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/region/paint.rs
@@ -309,9 +309,9 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua, m: &Table) -> mlua::Result<()> {
     )?;
 
     // SetTexCoordModifiesRect/GetTexCoordModifiesRect (`0x79c080`/`0x79c120`, table `0x87c128`):
-    // the setter is the only writer of `[texture+0x124]`, the getter answers 1 or nil. Stored, not
-    // applied: there a set flag makes `SetTexCoord` re-derive the rect from the UV quad
-    // (`0x770462`).
+    // the setter writes `[texture+0x124]` (`0x79c113`), as does installing the texture as a
+    // StatusBar's bar (`0x783220`); the getter answers 1 or nil. Stored, not applied: there a set
+    // flag makes `SetTexCoord` re-derive the rect from the UV quad (`0x770462`).
     m.set(
         "SetTexCoordModifiesRect",
         lua.create_function(|lua, (this, arg): (Table, Value)| {
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/slider.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/slider.rs
index d42b2848..f457f338 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/slider.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/slider.rs
@@ -8,14 +8,16 @@
 
 use mlua::{Lua, Table, Value};
 
-use super::object::{draw_layer_from_str, frame_handle_of};
+use super::object::frame_handle_of;
 use super::pointer::point_in_rect;
-use super::region::{install_into_slot, region_wrapper, texture_object_arg};
-use super::{event, Model, RegionData};
+use super::region::{
+    install_into_slot, new_texture_region, region_wrapper, set_texture_path, slot_arg, SlotArg,
+};
+use super::{event, Model};
 use crate::layout::Rect;
 use crate::order::DrawLayer;
 use crate::widget::{
-    slider_fraction, slider_grab, FrameHandle, KindState, RegionHandle, RegionKind, SliderState,
+    slider_fraction, slider_grab, FrameHandle, KindState, RegionHandle, SliderState,
 };
 
 pub(super) const REG_SLIDER_METHODS: &str = "__benilla_slider_methods";
@@ -39,56 +41,15 @@ fn with_slider<T>(
     }
 }
 
-/// Get or create the thumb texture region and return its id; `layer` re-layers an existing thumb,
-/// and a new one defaults to OVERLAY (`0x789580`).
-fn ensure_thumb(lua: &Lua, this: &Table, layer: Option<DrawLayer>) -> mlua::Result<u32> {
-    let h = frame_handle_of(lua, this)?;
-    let mut model = lua.app_data_mut::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
-
-    let existing = match &model
-        .arena
-        .frame(h)
-        .ok_or_else(|| mlua::Error::runtime("stale frame handle"))?
-        .kind_state
-    {
-        KindState::Slider(s) => s.thumb,
-        _ => return Err(mlua::Error::runtime("not a Slider")),
-    };
-
-    let rh = match existing {
-        Some(rh) => {
-            if let (Some(l), Some(region)) = (layer, model.arena.region_mut(rh)) {
-                region.draw_layer = l;
-            }
-            rh
-        }
-        None => {
-            let rh = model
-                .arena
-                .create_region(
-                    h,
-                    RegionKind::Texture,
-                    layer.unwrap_or(DrawLayer::Overlay),
-                    0,
-                )
-                .ok_or_else(|| mlua::Error::runtime("stale frame handle"))?;
-            model.region_data.insert(rh, RegionData::default());
-            model.touch_layout_region(rh);
-            if let Some(frame) = model.arena.frame_mut(h) {
-                if let KindState::Slider(s) = &mut frame.kind_state {
-                    s.thumb = Some(rh);
-                }
-            }
-            rh
-        }
-    };
-    Ok(model.region_id(rh))
-}
-
-/// Install `incoming` as the thumb, or clear it, through `0x789860`.
-fn install_thumb(lua: &Lua, this: &Table, incoming: Option<RegionHandle>) -> mlua::Result<()> {
-    let h = frame_handle_of(lua, this)?;
-    let mut model = lua.app_data_mut::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
+/// Install `incoming` as the thumb on `layer`, or clear it, through `0x789860`: the same texture
+/// is a no-op, the displaced one is deleted, the incoming one is linked in shown and loses its
+/// anchors (`0x789893`), the widget placing it.
+fn install_thumb_model(
+    model: &mut Model,
+    h: FrameHandle,
+    incoming: Option<RegionHandle>,
+    layer: DrawLayer,
+) -> mlua::Result<()> {
     if !matches!(
         model.arena.frame(h).map(|f| &f.kind_state),
         Some(KindState::Slider(_))
@@ -96,10 +57,11 @@ fn install_thumb(lua: &Lua, this: &Table, incoming: Option<RegionHandle>) -> mlu
         return Err(mlua::Error::runtime("not a Slider"));
     }
     install_into_slot(
-        &mut model,
+        model,
         h,
         incoming,
-        DrawLayer::Overlay,
+        layer,
+        true,
         true,
         |ks| match ks {
             KindState::Slider(sl) => sl.thumb,
@@ -114,6 +76,44 @@ fn install_thumb(lua: &Lua, this: &Table, incoming: Option<RegionHandle>) -> mlu
     .map(|_| ())
 }
 
+/// `<ThumbTexture>` (`0x7895f6`): the texture the texture adder built, installed as an object on
+/// the element's `drawLayer`, OVERLAY without one.
+pub(super) fn install_loaded(
+    model: &mut Model,
+    h: FrameHandle,
+    rh: RegionHandle,
+    layer: Option<DrawLayer>,
+) -> mlua::Result<()> {
+    install_thumb_model(model, h, Some(rh), layer.unwrap_or(DrawLayer::Overlay))
+}
+
+/// `SetThumbTexture`'s path leg (`0x7897c0`): a thumb that exists has its file swapped and nothing
+/// else; with none, a texture is built, given the file and installed on OVERLAY (`0x790431`'s
+/// layer).
+fn set_thumb_path(lua: &Lua, this: &Table, path: &str) -> mlua::Result<()> {
+    let h = frame_handle_of(lua, this)?;
+    let mut model = lua.app_data_mut::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
+    let existing = match &model
+        .arena
+        .frame(h)
+        .ok_or_else(|| mlua::Error::runtime("stale frame handle"))?
+        .kind_state
+    {
+        KindState::Slider(s) => s.thumb,
+        _ => return Err(mlua::Error::runtime("not a Slider")),
+    };
+    match existing {
+        Some(rh) => set_texture_path(&mut model, rh, path),
+        None => {
+            let rh = new_texture_region(&mut model, h, DrawLayer::Overlay)
+                .ok_or_else(|| mlua::Error::runtime("stale frame handle"))?;
+            set_texture_path(&mut model, rh, path);
+            install_thumb_model(&mut model, h, Some(rh), DrawLayer::Overlay)?;
+        }
+    }
+    Ok(())
+}
+
 pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
     let m = lua.create_table()?;
 
@@ -180,57 +180,33 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
     // A 1.12 Slider has no enabled state: `Enable`/`Disable`/`IsEnabled` exist only in the Button
     // table (`0x879d00`: `0x77fef0`, `0x77ffd0`, `0x7800b0`), so a Slider must not answer them.
 
-    // `SetThumbTexture(texture)` installs the object as the thumb, linked on OVERLAY (the constant
-    // `0x790431` passes) with its anchors cleared (`0x789893`), displacing the old thumb; nil
-    // clears it (`0x790473`). Otherwise `(path [, layer])` or `(r, g, b [, a])`, a region's two
-    // `SetTexture` forms, on the thumb region, created on first use.
+    // `SetThumbTexture(texture or "texture" or nil)` (`0x7902b0`): a Texture object is installed as
+    // the thumb, linked on OVERLAY (the constant `0x790431` passes) with its anchors cleared
+    // (`0x789893`), displacing the old thumb; a string or a number is the thumb's path
+    // (`0x790442`), and nil clears it (`0x790473`). It reads no layer and has no colour form.
     m.set(
         "SetThumbTexture",
         lua.create_function(|lua, (this, args): (Table, mlua::MultiValue)| {
-            let nil = Value::Nil;
-            let arg = |i: usize| args.get(i).unwrap_or(&nil);
-            let (a1, a2, a3, a4) = (arg(0), arg(1), arg(2), arg(3));
-            let layer = match a2 {
-                Value::String(s) => s.to_str().ok().and_then(|l| draw_layer_from_str(&l)),
-                _ => None,
-            };
-            match args.front() {
-                Some(Value::Table(t)) => {
-                    let rh = texture_object_arg(lua, &this, t, "SetThumbTexture")?;
-                    return install_thumb(lua, &this, Some(rh));
+            match slot_arg(
+                lua,
+                &this,
+                &args,
+                r#"SetThumbTexture(texture or "texture" or nil)"#,
+                "SetThumbTexture",
+                true,
+            )? {
+                SlotArg::Object(rh) => {
+                    let h = frame_handle_of(lua, &this)?;
+                    let mut model = lua.app_data_mut::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
+                    install_thumb_model(&mut model, h, Some(rh), DrawLayer::Overlay)
                 }
-                Some(Value::Nil) => return install_thumb(lua, &this, None),
-                _ => {}
+                SlotArg::Clear => {
+                    let h = frame_handle_of(lua, &this)?;
+                    let mut model = lua.app_data_mut::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
+                    install_thumb_model(&mut model, h, None, DrawLayer::Overlay)
+                }
+                SlotArg::Path(path) => set_thumb_path(lua, &this, &path),
             }
-            let id = ensure_thumb(lua, &this, layer)?;
-            let rh = {
-                let model = lua.app_data_ref::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
-                *model.id_to_region.get(&id).expect("thumb region id")
-            };
-            let mut model = lua.app_data_mut::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
-            let data = model.region_data.entry(rh).or_default();
-            match a1 {
-                Value::String(s) => {
-                    data.texture = Some(s.to_str()?.to_string());
-                    data.fill = None;
-                }
-                // A solid thumb and a path share one slot; each clears the other.
-                Value::Number(_) | Value::Integer(_) => {
-                    data.texture = None;
-                    data.fill = Some([
-                        num_f32(a1),
-                        num_f32(a2),
-                        num_f32(a3),
-                        match a4 {
-                            Value::Nil => 1.0,
-                            v => num_f32(v),
-                        },
-                    ]);
-                }
-                _ => {}
-            }
-            model.touch_layout_art(rh);
-            Ok(())
         })?,
     )?;
     m.set(
@@ -274,14 +250,6 @@ fn fire_value_changed(lua: &Lua, this: &Table, changed: Option<f32>) -> mlua::Re
     Ok(())
 }
 
-fn num_f32(v: &Value) -> f32 {
-    match v {
-        Value::Number(n) => *n as f32,
-        Value::Integer(i) => *i as f32,
-        _ => 0.0,
-    }
-}
-
 // ── Thumb geometry and drag ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
 /// The thumb's rect at `fraction` along the track, centred across it and inset so it travels
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/statusbar.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/statusbar.rs
index 247d1500..e3d2aca5 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/statusbar.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/statusbar.rs
@@ -7,10 +7,12 @@
 use mlua::{Lua, Table, Value};
 
 use super::object::{draw_layer_from_str, frame_handle_of};
-use super::region::{install_into_slot, region_wrapper, texture_object_arg};
-use super::{event, Model, RegionData};
+use super::region::{
+    install_into_slot, new_texture_region, region_wrapper, set_texture_path, slot_arg, SlotArg,
+};
+use super::{event, Model};
 use crate::order::DrawLayer;
-use crate::widget::{KindState, RegionHandle, RegionKind, StatusBarState};
+use crate::widget::{KindState, RegionHandle, StatusBarState};
 
 /// Registry key of the StatusBar method table.
 pub(super) const REG_STATUSBAR_METHODS: &str = "__benilla_statusbar_methods";
@@ -44,72 +46,27 @@ fn store_value(sb: &mut StatusBarState, v: f32) -> Option<f32> {
     })
 }
 
-/// Get or create the bar texture region, `ARTWORK` by default as in the reference; `layer`
-/// re-layers an existing one.
-fn ensure_bar(lua: &Lua, this: &Table, layer: Option<DrawLayer>) -> mlua::Result<u32> {
-    let h = frame_handle_of(lua, this)?;
-    let mut model = lua.app_data_mut::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
-
-    let existing = match &model
-        .arena
-        .frame(h)
-        .ok_or_else(|| mlua::Error::runtime("stale frame handle"))?
-        .kind_state
-    {
-        KindState::StatusBar(sb) => sb.bar,
-        _ => return Err(mlua::Error::runtime("not a StatusBar")),
-    };
-
-    let rh = match existing {
-        Some(rh) => {
-            if let (Some(l), Some(region)) = (layer, model.arena.region_mut(rh)) {
-                region.draw_layer = l;
-            }
-            rh
-        }
-        None => {
-            let rh = model
-                .arena
-                .create_region(
-                    h,
-                    RegionKind::Texture,
-                    layer.unwrap_or(DrawLayer::Artwork),
-                    0,
-                )
-                .ok_or_else(|| mlua::Error::runtime("stale frame handle"))?;
-            model.region_data.insert(rh, RegionData::default());
-            model.touch_layout_region(rh);
-            if let Some(frame) = model.arena.frame_mut(h) {
-                if let KindState::StatusBar(sb) = &mut frame.kind_state {
-                    sb.bar = Some(rh);
-                }
-            }
-            rh
-        }
-    };
-    Ok(model.region_id(rh))
-}
-
-/// Install `incoming` as the bar texture, or clear it, through `0x7831f0`.
-fn install_bar(
-    lua: &Lua,
-    this: &Table,
+/// Install `incoming` as the bar texture, or clear it, through `0x7831f0`: the same texture is a
+/// no-op, the displaced one is deleted, the incoming one is linked in on `layer` shown (`0x78321b`)
+/// and its texcoord-modifies-rect flag is set (`0x783220`).
+fn install_bar_model(
+    model: &mut Model,
+    h: crate::widget::FrameHandle,
     incoming: Option<RegionHandle>,
     layer: DrawLayer,
 ) -> mlua::Result<()> {
-    let h = frame_handle_of(lua, this)?;
-    let mut model = lua.app_data_mut::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
     if !matches!(
         model.arena.frame(h).map(|f| &f.kind_state),
         Some(KindState::StatusBar(_))
     ) {
         return Err(mlua::Error::runtime("not a StatusBar"));
     }
-    install_into_slot(
-        &mut model,
+    let changed = install_into_slot(
+        model,
         h,
         incoming,
         layer,
+        true,
         false,
         |ks| match ks {
             KindState::StatusBar(sb) => sb.bar,
@@ -120,8 +77,66 @@ fn install_bar(
                 sb.bar = rh;
             }
         },
-    )
-    .map(|_| ())
+    )?;
+    if let (true, Some(rh)) = (changed, incoming) {
+        model
+            .region_data
+            .entry(rh)
+            .or_default()
+            .tex_coord_modifies_rect = true;
+    }
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+fn install_bar(
+    lua: &Lua,
+    this: &Table,
+    incoming: Option<RegionHandle>,
+    layer: DrawLayer,
+) -> mlua::Result<()> {
+    let h = frame_handle_of(lua, this)?;
+    let mut model = lua.app_data_mut::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
+    install_bar_model(&mut model, h, incoming, layer)
+}
+
+/// `<BarTexture>` (`0x782f63`): the texture the texture adder built, installed as an object on the
+/// element's `drawLayer`, ARTWORK without one.
+pub(super) fn install_loaded(
+    model: &mut Model,
+    h: crate::widget::FrameHandle,
+    rh: RegionHandle,
+    layer: Option<DrawLayer>,
+) -> mlua::Result<()> {
+    install_bar_model(model, h, Some(rh), layer.unwrap_or(DrawLayer::Artwork))
+}
+
+/// `SetStatusBarTexture`'s path leg (`0x783140`): a bar that exists has its file swapped and
+/// nothing else, its layer included; with none, a texture is built, given the file and installed
+/// on `layer` (`0x7831cb`).
+fn set_bar_path(lua: &Lua, this: &Table, path: &str, layer: DrawLayer) -> mlua::Result<()> {
+    let h = frame_handle_of(lua, this)?;
+    let mut model = lua.app_data_mut::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
+    let existing = match &model
+        .arena
+        .frame(h)
+        .ok_or_else(|| mlua::Error::runtime("stale frame handle"))?
+        .kind_state
+    {
+        KindState::StatusBar(sb) => sb.bar,
+        _ => return Err(mlua::Error::runtime("not a StatusBar")),
+    };
+    match existing {
+        Some(rh) => set_texture_path(&mut model, rh, path),
+        None => {
+            let rh = new_texture_region(&mut model, h, layer)
+                .ok_or_else(|| mlua::Error::runtime("stale frame handle"))?;
+            set_texture_path(&mut model, rh, path);
+            // `SetAllPoints` onto the bar (`0x7831bf`).
+            super::region::implicit_creation_anchor(&mut model, rh);
+            install_bar_model(&mut model, h, Some(rh), layer)?;
+        }
+    }
+    Ok(())
 }
 
 pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
@@ -177,59 +192,35 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
         })?,
     )?;
 
-    // `(texture [, layer])` installs the object as the bar, linked on `layer` (ARTWORK without
-    // one, `0x78f902`) and displacing the old bar (`0x7831f0`); nil clears it (`0x78fa6d`). Its
-    // raises print `SetCheckedTexture`, the client's copy-pasted format strings (`0x87b1e8`,
-    // `0x87b224`). Otherwise a region's two `SetTexture` forms, `(path [, layer])` and
-    // `(r, g, b [, a])`, on the bar.
+    // `SetStatusBarTexture(texture or "texture" or nil [, "layer"])` (`0x78f870`): a Texture object
+    // is installed as the bar, linked on `layer` (ARTWORK without one, `0x78f902`) and displacing
+    // the old bar (`0x7831f0`); a string or a number is the path of the bar (`0x783140`), and nil
+    // clears it (`0x78fa6d`). There is no colour form. The object leg's raises print
+    // `SetCheckedTexture`, the client's copy-pasted format strings (`0x87b1e8`, `0x87b224`).
     m.set(
         "SetStatusBarTexture",
         lua.create_function(|lua, (this, args): (Table, mlua::MultiValue)| {
-            let nil = Value::Nil;
-            let arg = |i: usize| args.get(i).unwrap_or(&nil);
-            let (a1, a2, a3, a4) = (arg(0), arg(1), arg(2), arg(3));
-            let layer = match a2 {
-                Value::String(s) => s.to_str().ok().and_then(|l| draw_layer_from_str(&l)),
+            // `lua_isstring` on the layer (`0x78f909`): a number takes the name parse too, and
+            // finds no layer.
+            let layer = match args.get(1) {
+                Some(v @ (Value::String(_) | Value::Number(_) | Value::Integer(_))) => lua
+                    .coerce_string(v.clone())?
+                    .and_then(|l| draw_layer_from_str(&l.to_string_lossy())),
                 _ => None,
-            };
-            match args.front() {
-                Some(Value::Table(t)) => {
-                    let rh = texture_object_arg(lua, &this, t, "SetCheckedTexture")?;
-                    return install_bar(lua, &this, Some(rh), layer.unwrap_or(DrawLayer::Artwork));
-                }
-                Some(Value::Nil) => return install_bar(lua, &this, None, DrawLayer::Artwork),
-                _ => {}
             }
-            let id = ensure_bar(lua, &this, layer)?;
-            let rh = {
-                let model = lua.app_data_ref::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
-                *model.id_to_region.get(&id).expect("bar region id")
-            };
-            let mut model = lua.app_data_mut::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
-            let data = model.region_data.entry(rh).or_default();
-            match a1 {
-                Value::String(s) => {
-                    data.texture = Some(s.to_str()?.to_string());
-                    data.fill = None;
-                }
-                // A solid fill and a path clear each other; `SetStatusBarColor` is a separate
-                // tint that multiplies either.
-                Value::Number(_) | Value::Integer(_) => {
-                    data.texture = None;
-                    data.fill = Some([
-                        num_f32(a1),
-                        num_f32(a2),
-                        num_f32(a3),
-                        match a4 {
-                            Value::Nil => 1.0,
-                            v => num_f32(v),
-                        },
-                    ]);
-                }
-                _ => {}
+            .unwrap_or(DrawLayer::Artwork);
+            match slot_arg(
+                lua,
+                &this,
+                &args,
+                r#"SetStatusBarTexture(texture or "texture" or nil [, "layer"])"#,
+                "SetCheckedTexture",
+                true,
+            )? {
+                SlotArg::Object(rh) => install_bar(lua, &this, Some(rh), layer),
+                SlotArg::Clear => install_bar(lua, &this, None, DrawLayer::Artwork),
+                SlotArg::Path(path) => set_bar_path(lua, &this, &path, layer),
             }
-            model.touch_layout_art(rh);
-            Ok(())
         })?,
     )?;
     m.set(
@@ -258,9 +249,12 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
                     crate::script::object::as_f32(&g),
                     crate::script::object::as_f32(&b),
                 );
-                let id = ensure_bar(lua, &this, None)?;
+                // `0x78fc20` hands the colour to the bar (`0x782dd0`), which sets its vertex colour
+                // only if a bar exists and keeps nothing otherwise.
+                let Some(rh) = with_bar(lua, &this, |sb| sb.bar)? else {
+                    return Ok(());
+                };
                 let mut model = lua.app_data_mut::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
-                let rh = *model.id_to_region.get(&id).expect("bar region id");
                 model.region_data.entry(rh).or_default().vertex_color =
                     Some([r, g, b, a.unwrap_or(1.0)]);
                 Ok(())
@@ -325,11 +319,3 @@ pub(super) fn fire_engine_value_changed(lua: &Lua, bar: crate::widget::FrameHand
             .record_lua_error(&e);
     }
 }
-
-fn num_f32(v: &Value) -> f32 {
-    match v {
-        Value::Number(n) => *n as f32,
-        Value::Integer(i) => *i as f32,
-        _ => 0.0,
-    }
-}
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/button.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/button.rs
index 686c7139..014447d9 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/button.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/button.rs
@@ -127,10 +127,17 @@ fn a_state_with_no_texture_leaves_the_shown_one_standing() {
     );
     s.run("StickyBtn:SetDisabledTexture(\"Interface\\\\D.blp\")")
         .unwrap();
+    // The slot store shows the new texture and moves the shown pointer onto it, but hides nothing
+    // (`0x77902f`..`0x779041`): the normal art keeps its bit until the next switch clears it.
+    let mut both = visible(&s, "StickyBtn");
+    both.sort();
     assert_eq!(
-        visible(&s, "StickyBtn"),
-        vec!["Interface\\D.blp".to_string()],
-        "and real disabled art displaces it on the spot"
+        both,
+        vec![
+            "Interface\\D.blp".to_string(),
+            "Interface\\N.blp".to_string()
+        ],
+        "real disabled art joins it on the spot; the store hides nothing"
     );
     s.run("StickyBtn:Enable()").unwrap();
     assert_eq!(visible(&s, "StickyBtn"), n, "back to normal on Enable");
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/mod.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/mod.rs
index 83c6bd0b..dab3dee1 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/mod.rs
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ mod regions;
 mod resize_bounds;
 mod scrollframe;
 mod setparent;
+mod shown_bit;
 mod simplehtml;
 mod size_changed;
 mod slider;
@@ -58,6 +59,7 @@ mod tooltip_unit;
 mod toplevel;
 mod update_walk;
 mod visibility;
+mod widget_args;
 mod widget_surface;
 mod worldframe;
 mod worldmap;
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/numeric_shape_gate.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/numeric_shape_gate.rs
index aea1512c..dbf54b5e 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/numeric_shape_gate.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/numeric_shape_gate.rs
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ fn every_shape_c_colour_position_takes_nil_as_zero_and_never_raises() {
         T = F:CreateTexture(nil, "ARTWORK")
         FS = F:CreateFontString(nil, "ARTWORK")
         SB = CreateFrame("StatusBar", "SB")
+        SB:SetStatusBarTexture("bar") -- a bar to tint: with none the call keeps nothing (`0x782dd0`)
         CS = CreateFrame("ColorSelect", "CS")
         "#,
     )
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/shown_bit.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/shown_bit.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9ca574d5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/shown_bit.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,238 @@
+//! A Button's state and checked textures have one shown bit each (`+0xc4`), the region's own:
+//! `Show`/`Hide` (`0x79b770`/`0x79b830`) and the state switch (`0x7797ea`, `0x785538`) write the
+//! same bit, `IsShown` (`0x79b9b0`) reads it and the draw follows it.
+
+use super::common::script;
+use crate::script::*;
+
+fn drawn(s: &UiScript) -> Vec<String> {
+    s.extract()
+        .iter()
+        .filter_map(|q| match &q.content {
+            QuadContent::Texture { path: Some(p), .. } => Some(p.clone()),
+            _ => None,
+        })
+        .collect()
+}
+
+fn button(s: &mut UiScript, kind: &str) {
+    s.set_screen_size(800.0, 600.0);
+    s.run(&format!(
+        r#"
+        b = CreateFrame("{kind}", "ShownBitBtn")
+        b:SetPoint("CENTER", 0, 0) b:SetWidth(50) b:SetHeight(50)
+        b:SetNormalTexture("n") b:SetPushedTexture("p") b:SetDisabledTexture("d")
+        n, p, d = b:GetNormalTexture(), b:GetPushedTexture(), b:GetDisabledTexture()
+    "#
+    ))
+    .unwrap();
+}
+
+/// `Show()` on the pushed texture of a NORMAL button writes its bit, which is all the draw reads
+/// (`0x76fea5`..`0x77fcb0`); the next state switch, `0x7797c0`, clears it again.
+#[test]
+fn show_on_a_state_texture_draws_it_until_the_next_state_switch() {
+    let mut s = script();
+    button(&mut s, "Button");
+    s.run(r#"assert(n:IsShown() and not p:IsShown() and not d:IsShown())"#)
+        .unwrap();
+    s.resolve();
+    assert_eq!(drawn(&s), ["n"], "only the current state draws");
+
+    s.run("p:Show() assert(p:IsShown())").unwrap();
+    s.resolve();
+    let d = drawn(&s);
+    assert!(
+        d.contains(&"p".to_string()) && d.contains(&"n".to_string()),
+        "Show() on the pushed texture draws it beside the normal one: {d:?}"
+    );
+
+    s.run(r#"b:SetButtonState("PUSHED")"#).unwrap();
+    s.resolve();
+    assert_eq!(
+        drawn(&s),
+        ["p"],
+        "the switch hides the shown one, shows the pushed one"
+    );
+    s.run(r#"b:SetButtonState("NORMAL") assert(not p:IsShown() and n:IsShown())"#)
+        .unwrap();
+    s.resolve();
+    assert_eq!(
+        drawn(&s),
+        ["n"],
+        "the switch back clears the bit Show() wrote"
+    );
+}
+
+/// `Hide()` on the current state's texture clears the bit it draws by, and the switch away and
+/// back writes it again (`0x7797ea`).
+#[test]
+fn hide_on_the_current_state_texture_lasts_until_its_state_comes_again() {
+    let mut s = script();
+    button(&mut s, "Button");
+    s.run("n:Hide() assert(not n:IsShown())").unwrap();
+    s.resolve();
+    assert!(drawn(&s).is_empty(), "{:?}", drawn(&s));
+    s.run(r#"b:SetButtonState("PUSHED") b:SetButtonState("NORMAL") assert(n:IsShown())"#)
+        .unwrap();
+    s.resolve();
+    assert_eq!(drawn(&s), ["n"]);
+}
+
+/// The disabled state's switch (`Disable()` → `0x779790`) shows the disabled texture whatever
+/// `Hide()` did to it before.
+#[test]
+fn disable_shows_the_disabled_texture_a_script_hid() {
+    let mut s = script();
+    button(&mut s, "Button");
+    s.run("d:Show() d:Hide() b:Disable() assert(d:IsShown() and not n:IsShown())")
+        .unwrap();
+    s.resolve();
+    assert_eq!(drawn(&s), ["d"]);
+}
+
+/// The checked pair's bits are written by the refresh `0x7854c0` alone: `Show()` on the checked
+/// texture of an unchecked button draws it, `SetChecked` clears both and shows the right one
+/// (`0x785538`), and a state switch that is not `Enable`/`Disable` leaves them (`0x779790` never
+/// calls the refresh).
+#[test]
+fn the_checked_pair_is_two_bits_the_refresh_writes() {
+    let mut s = script();
+    button(&mut s, "CheckButton");
+    s.run(
+        r#"
+        b:SetCheckedTexture("c") b:SetDisabledCheckedTexture("dc")
+        c, dc = b:GetCheckedTexture(), b:GetDisabledCheckedTexture()
+        assert(not c:IsShown() and not dc:IsShown())
+        c:Show()
+    "#,
+    )
+    .unwrap();
+    s.resolve();
+    assert!(drawn(&s).contains(&"c".to_string()), "{:?}", drawn(&s));
+
+    s.run(r#"b:SetChecked(1) assert(c:IsShown() and not dc:IsShown())"#)
+        .unwrap();
+    s.run(r#"b:SetButtonState("DISABLED") assert(c:IsShown() and not dc:IsShown(), "no refresh")"#)
+        .unwrap();
+    s.run(r#"b:Enable() assert(c:IsShown() and not dc:IsShown())"#)
+        .unwrap();
+    s.run(r#"b:Disable() assert(dc:IsShown() and not c:IsShown(), "Disable refreshes")"#)
+        .unwrap();
+    s.resolve();
+    assert!(drawn(&s).contains(&"dc".to_string()), "{:?}", drawn(&s));
+    s.run(r#"b:SetChecked(nil) assert(not c:IsShown() and not dc:IsShown())"#)
+        .unwrap();
+}
+
+/// The highlight is no shown-bit state: it links shown (`0x779139`) and the HIGHLIGHT layer's
+/// enable decides, so `Hide()` on it stays hidden through any state switch.
+#[test]
+fn the_highlight_keeps_its_own_bit_through_state_switches() {
+    let mut s = script();
+    button(&mut s, "Button");
+    s.run(
+        r#"
+        b:SetHighlightTexture("h") h = b:GetHighlightTexture()
+        assert(h:IsShown())
+        h:Hide()
+        b:SetButtonState("PUSHED") b:SetButtonState("NORMAL") b:Disable() b:Enable()
+        assert(not h:IsShown())
+        h:Show() assert(h:IsShown())
+    "#,
+    )
+    .unwrap();
+}
+
+/// The engine's own edges write the bits the way `SetButtonState` does: a press (`0x779210`) and
+/// the release (`0x7792d0`), and the hide edge (`0x7791e0`) that un-pushes a button.
+#[test]
+fn the_press_release_and_hide_edges_write_the_bits() {
+    let mut s = script();
+    s.set_screen_size(800.0, 600.0);
+    s.run(
+        r#"
+        b = CreateFrame("Button", "EdgeBtn")
+        b:SetPoint("BOTTOMLEFT", 0, 0) b:SetWidth(100) b:SetHeight(100)
+        b:SetNormalTexture("n") b:SetPushedTexture("p")
+        n, p = b:GetNormalTexture(), b:GetPushedTexture()
+        assert(n:IsShown() and not p:IsShown())
+    "#,
+    )
+    .unwrap();
+    s.resolve();
+    s.mouse_move(50.0, 50.0);
+    s.mouse_button(50.0, 50.0, "LeftButton", true);
+    s.run(r#"assert(p:IsShown() and not n:IsShown(), "pressed")"#)
+        .unwrap();
+    s.resolve();
+    assert_eq!(drawn(&s), ["p"]);
+    s.mouse_button(50.0, 50.0, "LeftButton", false);
+    s.run(r#"assert(n:IsShown() and not p:IsShown(), "released")"#)
+        .unwrap();
+    s.resolve();
+    assert_eq!(drawn(&s), ["n"]);
+
+    s.run(r#"b:SetButtonState("PUSHED") assert(p:IsShown() and not n:IsShown())"#)
+        .unwrap();
+    s.run(r#"b:Hide() assert(n:IsShown() and not p:IsShown(), "the hide edge un-pushes")"#)
+        .unwrap();
+}
+
+/// An XML `checked="true"` (`0x7851a6`, refresh with force 0) ends with the checked texture shown
+/// and the disabled pair hidden.
+#[test]
+fn an_xml_checked_check_button_shows_its_checked_texture() {
+    let mut s = script();
+    s.set_screen_size(800.0, 600.0);
+    let doc = crate::framexml::parse(
+        r#"<Ui>
+            <CheckButton name="XmlTicked" checked="true">
+                <Size><AbsDimension x="24" y="24"/></Size>
+                <Anchors><Anchor point="CENTER"/></Anchors>
+                <NormalTexture file="Interface\Up"/>
+                <CheckedTexture file="Interface\Check"/>
+                <DisabledCheckedTexture file="Interface\DisabledCheck"/>
+            </CheckButton>
+            <CheckButton name="XmlUnticked">
+                <Size><AbsDimension x="24" y="24"/></Size>
+                <Anchors><Anchor point="CENTER"/></Anchors>
+                <CheckedTexture file="Interface\Check2"/>
+            </CheckButton>
+        </Ui>"#,
+    )
+    .unwrap();
+    let report = crate::loader::load(&s, &doc, &|_: &str| None);
+    assert!(report.errors.is_empty(), "errors: {:?}", report.errors);
+    s.run(
+        r#"
+        assert(XmlTicked:GetCheckedTexture():IsShown(), "checked")
+        assert(not XmlTicked:GetDisabledCheckedTexture():IsShown(), "disabled pair")
+        assert(not XmlUnticked:GetCheckedTexture():IsShown(), "unchecked")
+    "#,
+    )
+    .unwrap();
+    s.resolve();
+    let d = drawn(&s);
+    assert!(d.contains(&"Interface\\Check".to_string()), "{d:?}");
+    assert!(!d.contains(&"Interface\\Check2".to_string()), "{d:?}");
+}
+
+/// The CheckButton override of `SetEnabled` (`0x785490`) refreshes the pair (`0x7854aa`) whether or
+/// not the base changed anything, so an `Enable()` on an enabled button re-shows a checked texture
+/// a script hid.
+#[test]
+fn an_enable_that_changes_nothing_still_refreshes_the_checked_pair() {
+    let mut s = script();
+    button(&mut s, "CheckButton");
+    s.run(
+        r#"
+        b:SetCheckedTexture("c") c = b:GetCheckedTexture()
+        b:SetChecked(1)
+        c:Hide() assert(not c:IsShown())
+        b:Enable()
+        assert(c:IsShown(), "refreshed")
+    "#,
+    )
+    .unwrap();
+}
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/statusbar.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/statusbar.rs
index c5418580..d108f21c 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/statusbar.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/statusbar.rs
@@ -73,7 +73,11 @@ fn statusbar_bar_region_scales_by_fraction_on_extract() {
         local b = CreateFrame("StatusBar", "SbFill")
         b:SetPoint("BOTTOMLEFT", nil, "BOTTOMLEFT", 100, 100)
         b:SetWidth(200); b:SetHeight(20)
-        b:SetStatusBarTexture(0.2, 0.7, 0.2)
+        -- A solid bar is a texture filled with a colour, installed as the object: the bar setter
+        -- has no colour form (`0x78f870`).
+        local fill = b:CreateTexture(nil, "ARTWORK")
+        fill:SetTexture(0.2, 0.7, 0.2)
+        b:SetStatusBarTexture(fill)
         b:SetMinMaxValues(0, 100)
         b:SetValue(25)
     "#,
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/widget_args.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/widget_args.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0f867e7c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/widget_args.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,408 @@
+//! The argument forms of the widget texture setters (`SetStatusBarTexture` `0x78f870`,
+//! `SetThumbTexture` `0x7902b0`, the four ColorSelect setters `0x78de90`, `0x78e160`, `0x78e450`,
+//! `0x78e720`), and the bar texture's texcoord flag (`0x7831f0`). Each forks on `lua_type`
+//! (`0x6f3400`) and `lua_isstring` (`0x6f3510`), which takes a string or a number: a Texture object
+//! is installed, a string or number is loaded as a path, nil clears, anything else, no argument
+//! included, raises the usage. There is no colour form.
+
+use super::common::script;
+use crate::script::*;
+
+fn err(s: &UiScript, code: &str) -> String {
+    s.run(code).unwrap_err().to_string()
+}
+
+fn xml(s: &UiScript, text: &str) {
+    let doc = crate::framexml::parse(text).expect("valid FrameXML");
+    let report = crate::loader::load(s, &doc, &|_: &str| None);
+    assert!(report.errors.is_empty(), "errors: {:?}", report.errors);
+}
+
+/// `0x7831f0` writes `[texture+0x124] = 1` (`0x783220`) after it links the texture in, on the path
+/// leg (`0x7831cb`), the object leg (`0x78fa27`) and `LoadXML`'s (`0x782f63`);
+/// `GetTexCoordModifiesRect` (`0x79c120`) reads it.
+#[test]
+fn a_bar_texture_answers_one_to_get_tex_coord_modifies_rect() {
+    let s = script();
+    xml(
+        &s,
+        r#"<Ui>
+            <StatusBar name="XmlFileBar"><BarTexture file="Interface\Bar"/></StatusBar>
+            <StatusBar name="XmlColorBar"><BarTexture><Color r="1" g="0" b="0"/></BarTexture></StatusBar>
+        </Ui>"#,
+    );
+    s.run(
+        r#"
+        assert(XmlFileBar:GetStatusBarTexture():GetTexCoordModifiesRect() == 1, "xml file")
+        assert(XmlColorBar:GetStatusBarTexture():GetTexCoordModifiesRect() == 1, "xml colour")
+
+        local p = CreateFrame("StatusBar", "PathBar")
+        p:SetStatusBarTexture("Interface\\Bar")
+        assert(p:GetStatusBarTexture():GetTexCoordModifiesRect() == 1, "path")
+
+        local o = CreateFrame("StatusBar", "ObjBar")
+        local t = o:CreateTexture(nil, "ARTWORK")
+        assert(t:GetTexCoordModifiesRect() == nil, "a fresh texture")
+        o:SetStatusBarTexture(t)
+        assert(t:GetTexCoordModifiesRect() == 1, "object")
+
+        -- A bar that exists takes the path leg's SetTexture alone (`0x783140`), so what a script
+        -- wrote to the flag stays.
+        t:SetTexCoordModifiesRect(nil)
+        o:SetStatusBarTexture("Interface\\Other")
+        assert(o:GetStatusBarTexture() == t and t:GetTexCoordModifiesRect() == nil, "reused")
+        -- A displaced texture is gone; its replacement is a new object and gets the flag.
+        local u = o:CreateTexture(nil, "ARTWORK")
+        o:SetStatusBarTexture(u)
+        assert(u:GetTexCoordModifiesRect() == 1, "replacement")
+    "#,
+    )
+    .unwrap();
+}
+
+/// `lua_isstring` accepts a number and `lua_tostring` converts it (`0x78fa35`..`0x78fa51`), so
+/// `1` is the file `"1"`, and the `(r, g, b)` form of an older client is the path `"0.2"` with the
+/// two other numbers read as a layer name that is none. `GetTexture` answers a path without its
+/// extension, so `"0.2"` reads `"0"`; the quad is what shows the whole file name.
+#[test]
+fn a_number_loads_as_its_own_path() {
+    let mut s = script();
+    s.set_screen_size(800.0, 600.0);
+    s.run(
+        r#"
+        local sb = CreateFrame("StatusBar", "NumBar")
+        sb:SetPoint("CENTER", 0, 0) sb:SetWidth(50) sb:SetHeight(50)
+        sb:SetMinMaxValues(0, 1) sb:SetValue(1)
+        sb:SetStatusBarTexture(0.2, 0.7, 0.2)
+        assert(sb:GetStatusBarTexture():GetTexture() ~= "Solid Texture", "no solid fill")
+        local sl = CreateFrame("Slider", "NumSlider")
+        sl:SetThumbTexture(2, 0.5, 0.5, 1)
+        assert(sl:GetThumbTexture():GetTexture() == "2")
+
+        local cs = CreateFrame("ColorSelect", "NumCS")
+        cs:SetColorWheelThumbTexture(3)
+        cs:SetColorValueThumbTexture(4)
+        assert(cs:GetColorWheelThumbTexture():GetTexture() == "3")
+        assert(cs:GetColorValueThumbTexture():GetTexture() == "4")
+
+        local one = CreateFrame("StatusBar", "NumBarOne")
+        one:SetStatusBarTexture(1)
+        assert(one:GetStatusBarTexture():GetTexture() == "1")
+    "#,
+    )
+    .unwrap();
+    s.resolve();
+    let paths: Vec<String> = s
+        .extract()
+        .iter()
+        .filter_map(|q| match &q.content {
+            QuadContent::Texture {
+                path: Some(p),
+                color: None,
+                ..
+            } => Some(p.clone()),
+            _ => None,
+        })
+        .collect();
+    assert!(paths.contains(&"0.2".to_string()), "{paths:?}");
+}
+
+/// No argument is not nil (`0x6f3400` answers -1), and any other type is no texture either: the
+/// usage line (`0x87b1a0`, `0x87b2f0`, `0x87adc0`, `0x87af40`, `0x87ad10`, `0x87ae90`) with the
+/// frame's name, and nothing changes.
+#[test]
+fn no_argument_and_other_types_raise_the_usage() {
+    let s = script();
+    s.run(
+        r#"
+        sb = CreateFrame("StatusBar", "UseBar")
+        sl = CreateFrame("Slider", "UseSlider")
+        cs = CreateFrame("ColorSelect", "UseCS")
+        sb:SetStatusBarTexture("keep")
+        sl:SetThumbTexture("keep")
+    "#,
+    )
+    .unwrap();
+    for (call, usage) in [
+        (
+            "sb:SetStatusBarTexture()",
+            r#"Usage: UseBar:SetStatusBarTexture(texture or "texture" or nil [, "layer"])"#,
+        ),
+        (
+            "sb:SetStatusBarTexture(true)",
+            r#"Usage: UseBar:SetStatusBarTexture(texture or "texture" or nil [, "layer"])"#,
+        ),
+        (
+            "sl:SetThumbTexture()",
+            r#"Usage: UseSlider:SetThumbTexture(texture or "texture" or nil)"#,
+        ),
+        (
+            "sl:SetThumbTexture(function() end)",
+            r#"Usage: UseSlider:SetThumbTexture(texture or "texture" or nil)"#,
+        ),
+        (
+            "cs:SetColorWheelThumbTexture()",
+            r#"Usage: UseCS:SetColorWheelThumbTexture(texture or "texture" or nil)"#,
+        ),
+        (
+            "cs:SetColorValueThumbTexture(false)",
+            r#"Usage: UseCS:SetColorValueThumbTexture(texture or "texture" or nil)"#,
+        ),
+        (
+            "cs:SetColorWheelTexture()",
+            "Usage: UseCS:SetColorWheelTexture(texture or nil)",
+        ),
+        (
+            "cs:SetColorValueTexture()",
+            "Usage: UseCS:SetColorValueTexture(texture or nil)",
+        ),
+    ] {
+        let e = err(&s, call);
+        assert!(e.contains(usage), "`{call}` -> {e}");
+    }
+    s.run(
+        r#"
+        assert(sb:GetStatusBarTexture():GetTexture() == "keep")
+        assert(sl:GetThumbTexture():GetTexture() == "keep")
+        assert(cs:GetColorWheelTexture() == nil and cs:GetColorWheelThumbTexture() == nil)
+    "#,
+    )
+    .unwrap();
+}
+
+/// The wheel and the strip have no path leg (`0x87ad10`, `0x87ae90`): a string or a number raises,
+/// a Texture object installs and nil clears.
+#[test]
+fn the_wheel_and_the_strip_take_a_texture_or_nil_only() {
+    let s = script();
+    s.run(
+        r#"
+        cs = CreateFrame("ColorSelect", "WheelCS")
+        t = cs:CreateTexture(nil, "ARTWORK")
+        cs:SetColorWheelTexture(t)
+        assert(cs:GetColorWheelTexture() == t)
+        cs:SetColorWheelTexture(nil)
+        assert(cs:GetColorWheelTexture() == nil)
+        t = cs:CreateTexture(nil, "ARTWORK")
+        cs:SetColorValueTexture(t)
+        assert(cs:GetColorValueTexture() == t)
+    "#,
+    )
+    .unwrap();
+    for call in [
+        r#"cs:SetColorWheelTexture("Interface\\Wheel")"#,
+        "cs:SetColorWheelTexture(1)",
+        r#"cs:SetColorValueTexture("Interface\\Strip")"#,
+    ] {
+        let e = err(&s, call);
+        assert!(e.contains("Usage: WheelCS:SetColor"), "`{call}` -> {e}");
+    }
+    s.run("assert(cs:GetColorValueTexture() == t)").unwrap();
+}
+
+/// The thumb setters read no layer (`0x7902b0` has no layer argument): a second argument is
+/// ignored, and the thumb is OVERLAY. The bar reads one (`0x78f8fb`) for a bar it creates, and an
+/// existing bar keeps its layer (`0x783140` never reads it).
+#[test]
+fn the_thumbs_take_no_layer_and_an_existing_bar_keeps_its_own() {
+    let s = script();
+    s.run(
+        r#"
+        local sl = CreateFrame("Slider", "LayerSlider")
+        sl:SetThumbTexture("p", "BACKGROUND")
+        assert(sl:GetThumbTexture():GetDrawLayer() == "OVERLAY", sl:GetThumbTexture():GetDrawLayer())
+
+        local sb = CreateFrame("StatusBar", "LayerBar")
+        sb:SetStatusBarTexture("a", "BORDER")
+        assert(sb:GetStatusBarTexture():GetDrawLayer() == "BORDER")
+        sb:SetStatusBarTexture("b", "HIGHLIGHT")
+        assert(sb:GetStatusBarTexture():GetDrawLayer() == "BORDER", "an existing bar keeps its layer")
+        assert(sb:GetStatusBarTexture():GetTexture() == "b")
+    "#,
+    )
+    .unwrap();
+}
+
+/// What the loader reaches with the colour form the Lua setters no longer have: a `<Color>` in
+/// `<BarTexture>` or `<ThumbTexture>` is the texture's own fill, and a file-less ColorSelect
+/// element still creates its region.
+#[test]
+fn the_loader_still_fills_and_creates_what_the_setters_no_longer_take() {
+    let mut s = script();
+    s.set_screen_size(800.0, 600.0);
+    xml(
+        &s,
+        r#"<Ui>
+            <StatusBar name="FillBar" minValue="0" maxValue="100" defaultValue="100">
+                <Size><AbsDimension x="100" y="10"/></Size>
+                <Anchors><Anchor point="BOTTOMLEFT"/></Anchors>
+                <BarTexture><Color r="0.25" g="0.5" b="0.75" a="1"/></BarTexture>
+            </StatusBar>
+            <Slider name="FillSlider">
+                <Size><AbsDimension x="10" y="100"/></Size>
+                <Anchors><Anchor point="TOPLEFT"/></Anchors>
+                <ThumbTexture name="FillThumb"><Size><AbsDimension x="10" y="10"/></Size><Color r="0.75" g="0.5" b="0.25" a="1"/></ThumbTexture>
+            </Slider>
+            <ColorSelect name="BareCS">
+                <Size><AbsDimension x="100" y="100"/></Size>
+                <Anchors><Anchor point="CENTER"/></Anchors>
+                <ColorWheelTexture/>
+                <ColorWheelThumbTexture/>
+                <ColorValueTexture/>
+                <ColorValueThumbTexture/>
+            </ColorSelect>
+        </Ui>"#,
+    );
+    s.run(
+        r#"
+        assert(FillBar:GetStatusBarTexture() ~= nil and FillSlider:GetThumbTexture() ~= nil)
+        assert(BareCS:GetColorWheelTexture() ~= nil and BareCS:GetColorWheelThumbTexture() ~= nil)
+        assert(BareCS:GetColorValueTexture() ~= nil and BareCS:GetColorValueThumbTexture() ~= nil)
+        assert(BareCS:GetColorWheelTexture():GetTexture() == nil)
+    "#,
+    )
+    .unwrap();
+    s.resolve();
+    let fills: Vec<[f32; 4]> = s
+        .extract()
+        .iter()
+        .filter_map(|q| match &q.content {
+            QuadContent::Texture {
+                path: None,
+                color: Some(c),
+                ..
+            } => Some(*c),
+            _ => None,
+        })
+        .collect();
+    assert!(fills.contains(&[0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1.0]), "{fills:?}");
+    assert!(fills.contains(&[0.75, 0.5, 0.25, 1.0]), "{fills:?}");
+}
+
+/// The bar's path leg gives a new bar texture all points on its bar (`0x7831bf`), as the XML leg's
+/// post-step does (`0x7701c0`); a texture handed in as an object keeps what it has.
+#[test]
+fn an_installed_bar_texture_has_all_points_on_its_bar() {
+    let s = script();
+    xml(
+        &s,
+        r#"<Ui>
+            <StatusBar name="PtsXmlBar"><BarTexture file="Interface\Bar"/></StatusBar>
+        </Ui>"#,
+    );
+    s.run(
+        r#"
+        local function onbar(t, bar)
+            assert(t:GetNumPoints() == 2, "points: " .. t:GetNumPoints())
+            local _, rel = t:GetPoint(1)
+            assert(rel == bar, "relative to the bar")
+        end
+        onbar(PtsXmlBar:GetStatusBarTexture(), PtsXmlBar)
+
+        local p = CreateFrame("StatusBar", "PtsPathBar")
+        p:SetStatusBarTexture("Interface\\Bar")
+        onbar(p:GetStatusBarTexture(), p)
+
+        local o = CreateFrame("StatusBar", "PtsObjBar")
+        local t = o:CreateTexture(nil, "ARTWORK")
+        assert(t:GetNumPoints() == 0)
+        o:SetStatusBarTexture(t)
+        assert(t:GetNumPoints() == 0, "an object keeps what it has")
+    "#,
+    )
+    .unwrap();
+}
+
+/// An empty `<BarTexture/>` or `<ThumbTexture/>` still installs the texture the texture adder
+/// builds (`0x782f63`, `0x7895f6`), and draws nothing.
+#[test]
+fn an_empty_bar_or_thumb_element_installs_a_texture() {
+    let mut s = script();
+    s.set_screen_size(800.0, 600.0);
+    xml(
+        &s,
+        r#"<Ui>
+            <StatusBar name="EmptyBar"><Size><AbsDimension x="50" y="10"/></Size>
+                <Anchors><Anchor point="CENTER"/></Anchors><BarTexture/></StatusBar>
+            <Slider name="EmptySlider"><Size><AbsDimension x="10" y="50"/></Size>
+                <Anchors><Anchor point="TOPLEFT"/></Anchors><ThumbTexture/></Slider>
+        </Ui>"#,
+    );
+    s.run(
+        r#"
+        assert(EmptyBar:GetStatusBarTexture() ~= nil, "bar")
+        assert(EmptyBar:GetStatusBarTexture():GetTexCoordModifiesRect() == 1)
+        assert(EmptySlider:GetThumbTexture() ~= nil, "thumb")
+    "#,
+    )
+    .unwrap();
+    s.resolve();
+    let textured = s
+        .extract()
+        .iter()
+        .filter(|q| {
+            matches!(
+                q.content,
+                QuadContent::Texture { path: Some(_), .. }
+                    | QuadContent::Texture { color: Some(_), .. }
+            )
+        })
+        .count();
+    assert_eq!(textured, 0, "an empty texture draws nothing");
+}
+
+/// `SetStatusBarColor` (`0x78fc20` → `0x782dd0`) tints the bar only if one exists and keeps
+/// nothing otherwise: no bar, no effect, and a bar installed later is untinted.
+#[test]
+fn set_status_bar_color_with_no_bar_does_nothing() {
+    let s = script();
+    s.run(
+        r#"
+        local sb = CreateFrame("StatusBar", "TintBar")
+        sb:SetStatusBarColor(1, 0, 0)
+        assert(sb:GetStatusBarTexture() == nil, "no bar made")
+        sb:SetStatusBarTexture("p")
+        local r, g, b, a = sb:GetStatusBarColor()
+        assert(r == 1 and g == 1 and b == 1 and a == 1, "untinted: " .. r .. g .. b)
+        sb:SetStatusBarColor(0, 1, 0)
+        r, g, b = sb:GetStatusBarColor()
+        assert(r == 0 and g == 1 and b == 0, "tinted once there is a bar")
+    "#,
+    )
+    .unwrap();
+}
+
+/// `<BarTexture>` and `<ThumbTexture>` go through the texture adder (`0x6f26f0`): a named one is
+/// published under its expanded name, and its `<TexCoords>` and `alphaMode` apply.
+#[test]
+fn a_named_bar_texture_is_published_and_keeps_its_texcoords() {
+    let s = script();
+    xml(
+        &s,
+        r#"<Ui>
+            <StatusBar name="NamedBarFrame">
+                <BarTexture name="$parentBar" file="Interface\Bar" alphaMode="ADD">
+                    <TexCoords left="0.1" right="0.9" top="0.2" bottom="0.8"/>
+                </BarTexture>
+            </StatusBar>
+            <Slider name="NamedSliderFrame">
+                <ThumbTexture name="$parentThumb" file="Interface\Knob">
+                    <TexCoords left="0.25" right="0.75" top="0" bottom="1"/>
+                </ThumbTexture>
+            </Slider>
+        </Ui>"#,
+    );
+    s.run(
+        r#"
+        assert(NamedBarFrameBar == NamedBarFrame:GetStatusBarTexture(), "published")
+        assert(NamedBarFrameBar:GetName() == "NamedBarFrameBar")
+        local ulx, uly = NamedBarFrameBar:GetTexCoord()
+        assert(math.abs(ulx - 0.1) < 1e-5 and math.abs(uly - 0.2) < 1e-5, ulx .. " " .. uly)
+        assert(NamedBarFrameBar:GetBlendMode() == "ADD")
+        assert(NamedSliderFrameThumb == NamedSliderFrame:GetThumbTexture(), "thumb published")
+        ulx = NamedSliderFrameThumb:GetTexCoord()
+        assert(math.abs(ulx - 0.25) < 1e-5)
+    "#,
+    )
+    .unwrap();
+}
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/types.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/types.rs
index 74624ca4..041f0621 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/types.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/types.rs
@@ -381,9 +381,10 @@ pub(crate) struct RegionData {
     pub(crate) justify: crate::justify::Justify,
     /// The `<TexCoords>`/`SetTexCoord` mapping; `None` is the full texture.
     pub(crate) tex_coords: Option<TexCoords>,
-    /// `SetTexCoordModifiesRect`, the reference's `+0x124` (written only at `0x79c113`, in
-    /// `0x79c080`). Stored, not applied: there a set flag makes `SetTexCoord` re-derive the rect
-    /// from the UV quad (`0x770462`); no stock or corpus code sets it.
+    /// The reference's `+0x124`: `SetTexCoordModifiesRect` writes it (`0x79c113`, in `0x79c080`)
+    /// and installing the texture as a StatusBar's bar sets it (`0x783220`, in `0x7831f0`). Stored,
+    /// not applied: there a set flag makes `SetTexCoord` re-derive the rect from the UV quad
+    /// (`0x770462`); no stock or corpus code sets it.
     pub(crate) tex_coord_modifies_rect: bool,
     /// Rotation about the centre, radians counterclockwise; always 0: 1.12 has no Texture setter.
     pub(crate) rotation: f32,
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/widget/kinds/mod.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/widget/kinds/mod.rs
index 146c8ba4..b5a88d6d 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/widget/kinds/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/widget/kinds/mod.rs
@@ -745,6 +745,23 @@ pub enum ButtonVisualState {
     Pushed,
 }
 
+/// The writes to regions' shown bit (`+0xc4`) a Button's state machine makes, in order. The bit
+/// is the region's own, the one `Show`/`Hide` write and `IsShown` and the draw read, so the
+/// machine hands its writes back for the caller to apply to the regions.
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, Default, PartialEq, Eq)]
+#[must_use = "the caller writes these bits into the regions"]
+pub struct ShownWrites(pub Vec<(RegionHandle, bool)>);
+
+impl ShownWrites {
+    fn hide(&mut self, rh: Option<RegionHandle>) {
+        self.0.extend(rh.map(|rh| (rh, false)));
+    }
+
+    fn show(&mut self, rh: Option<RegionHandle>) {
+        self.0.extend(rh.map(|rh| (rh, true)));
+    }
+}
+
 /// A button's state. The drawn state texture is latched, not derived: the shown pointer
 /// (`+0x4c4`) moves only on a transition into a state that has a texture ([`Self::set_state`]).
 #[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq)]
@@ -848,22 +865,53 @@ impl ButtonState {
 
     /// `SetState` (`0x779790`): entering a state with no texture keeps the shown one
     /// (`0x7797be`/`0x7797e2`). A button is NORMAL before `LoadXML` adds its art (ctor
-    /// `0x7786a0`), so a press or `Disable()` without its own texture keeps the normal art.
-    fn set_state(&mut self, new: ButtonVisualState) {
+    /// `0x7786a0`), so a press or `Disable()` without its own texture keeps the normal art. The
+    /// hide of the old (`0x7797c0`) runs only when the new state has a texture too, and the show of
+    /// the new (`0x7797ea`) writes its bit.
+    fn set_state(&mut self, new: ButtonVisualState) -> ShownWrites {
         if new == self.state {
-            return;
+            return ShownWrites::default();
         }
         self.state = new;
+        let mut w = ShownWrites::default();
         if let Some(slot) = self.state_slot(new) {
+            w.hide(self.shown);
             self.shown = Some(slot);
+            w.show(Some(slot));
         }
+        w
     }
 
     /// `SetButtonState(state, locked)` (`0x779790`), the one writer: the lock is stored before the
     /// equal-state early-out (`0x77979d`), so it is set or cleared even when the state holds.
-    pub fn set_button_state(&mut self, new: ButtonVisualState, locked: bool) {
+    pub fn set_button_state(&mut self, new: ButtonVisualState, locked: bool) -> ShownWrites {
         self.locked = locked;
-        self.set_state(new);
+        self.set_state(new)
+    }
+
+    /// `CSimpleCheckbox::Refresh` (`0x7854c0`): clears both checked textures' bits, then shows
+    /// the one the checked flag and the state pick (`0x785538`), the disabled pair's when DISABLED
+    /// and it exists, else the checked texture. `force` is its second argument: without it a flag
+    /// that holds does nothing (`0x7854d0`). Only `SetChecked`, a click, `SetEnabled`, the two
+    /// checked setters and the XML `checked=` attribute (`0x7851a6`) reach it; a state switch alone
+    /// leaves the pair. The reference's `checked=` runs before the checked textures exist, so it
+    /// shows nothing and each setter's refresh shows its texture; benilla's loader calls
+    /// `SetChecked` after the textures, which ends in the same state.
+    pub fn refresh_checked(&mut self, checked: bool, force: bool) -> ShownWrites {
+        if !force && checked == self.checked {
+            return ShownWrites::default();
+        }
+        self.checked = checked;
+        let mut w = ShownWrites::default();
+        w.hide(self.checked_tex);
+        w.hide(self.disabled_checked);
+        if checked {
+            w.show(match self.disabled_checked {
+                Some(dc) if !self.enabled() => Some(dc),
+                _ => self.checked_tex,
+            });
+        }
+        w
     }
 
     /// `IsEnabled` (`0x7800b0`): the state alone; the class has no enabled flag.
@@ -880,65 +928,89 @@ impl ButtonState {
     // Six of `0x779790`'s seven call sites, all passing `locked = 0`; the seventh is Lua's.
 
     /// `SetEnabled` (`0x779160`): a no-op if nothing changes (`0x779175`/`0x77919c`), so enabling a
-    /// pushed button neither un-pushes nor unlocks it; returns whether it ran.
-    pub fn set_enabled(&mut self, on: bool) -> bool {
-        if on == self.enabled() {
-            return false;
-        }
-        self.set_button_state(
-            if on {
-                ButtonVisualState::Normal
-            } else {
-                ButtonVisualState::Disabled
-            },
-            false,
-        );
-        true
+    /// pushed button neither un-pushes nor unlocks it. A CheckButton's override (`0x785490`) then
+    /// refreshes the checked pair whether or not it changed, which a Button, with no checked
+    /// textures, does not notice.
+    pub fn set_enabled(&mut self, on: bool) -> ShownWrites {
+        let mut w = if on == self.enabled() {
+            ShownWrites::default()
+        } else {
+            self.set_button_state(
+                if on {
+                    ButtonVisualState::Normal
+                } else {
+                    ButtonVisualState::Disabled
+                },
+                false,
+            )
+        };
+        w.0.extend(self.refresh_checked(self.checked, true).0);
+        w
     }
 
     /// The hide edge (`0x7791e0`): an unlocked, enabled button goes NORMAL; `<OnHide>` still fires.
-    pub fn on_hide(&mut self) {
+    pub fn on_hide(&mut self) -> ShownWrites {
         if self.state != ButtonVisualState::Disabled && !self.locked {
-            self.set_button_state(ButtonVisualState::Normal, false);
+            self.set_button_state(ButtonVisualState::Normal, false)
+        } else {
+            ShownWrites::default()
         }
     }
 
     /// The press edge (`0x779210`), past the registration and hit gates, so a registered click
     /// pushes the button even when the click itself does nothing.
-    pub fn on_mouse_down(&mut self) {
+    pub fn on_mouse_down(&mut self) -> ShownWrites {
         if !self.locked && self.state != ButtonVisualState::Disabled {
-            self.set_button_state(ButtonVisualState::Pushed, false);
+            self.set_button_state(ButtonVisualState::Pushed, false)
+        } else {
+            ShownWrites::default()
         }
     }
 
     /// The release edge (`0x7792d0`): a pushed, unlocked button goes NORMAL wherever the cursor
     /// is, even one Lua pushed. The caller skips it when the release ends a drag (`0x7792df`).
-    pub fn on_mouse_up(&mut self) {
+    pub fn on_mouse_up(&mut self) -> ShownWrites {
         if !self.locked && self.state == ButtonVisualState::Pushed {
-            self.set_button_state(ButtonVisualState::Normal, false);
+            self.set_button_state(ButtonVisualState::Normal, false)
+        } else {
+            ShownWrites::default()
         }
     }
 
     /// The drag-start edge (`0x7793f0`), before `<OnDragStart>`: it fires at the drag threshold
     /// (0.01 frame units, `0x81c468`) on a `RegisterForDrag` frame, not at the rect edge.
-    pub fn on_drag_start(&mut self) {
+    pub fn on_drag_start(&mut self) -> ShownWrites {
         if !self.locked && self.state != ButtonVisualState::Disabled {
-            self.set_button_state(ButtonVisualState::Normal, false);
+            self.set_button_state(ButtonVisualState::Normal, false)
+        } else {
+            ShownWrites::default()
         }
     }
 
-    /// `SetNormalTexture` and kin (`0x778fd0`): stores the slot, shown only if it is the current
-    /// state's (`0x779027`). The reference destroys a displaced texture (`0x77900a`); here the
-    /// region is made once and repainted, so a held `GetNormalTexture()` stays live.
-    pub fn set_state_slot(&mut self, state: ButtonVisualState, rh: Option<RegionHandle>) {
-        match state {
-            ButtonVisualState::Disabled => self.disabled = rh,
-            ButtonVisualState::Normal => self.normal = rh,
-            ButtonVisualState::Pushed => self.pushed = rh,
+    /// `SetNormalTexture` and kin (`0x778fd0`): stores the slot; the state it is for being the
+    /// current one, the texture becomes the shown one and its bit is written (`0x779027`..
+    /// `0x779037`). A shown pointer at the displaced texture is dropped first (`0x778fe9`). The
+    /// reference destroys a displaced texture (`0x77900a`); the caller frees it.
+    pub fn set_state_slot(
+        &mut self,
+        state: ButtonVisualState,
+        rh: Option<RegionHandle>,
+    ) -> ShownWrites {
+        let slot = match state {
+            ButtonVisualState::Disabled => &mut self.disabled,
+            ButtonVisualState::Normal => &mut self.normal,
+            ButtonVisualState::Pushed => &mut self.pushed,
+        };
+        let old = std::mem::replace(slot, rh);
+        if self.shown == old {
+            self.shown = None;
         }
-        if state == self.state {
+        let mut w = ShownWrites::default();
+        if state == self.state && rh.is_some() {
             self.shown = rh;
+            w.show(rh);
         }
+        w
     }
 
     /// The region-removed hook: a CheckButton drops its checked pair (`0x785230`, `+0x4e0` and
@@ -961,38 +1033,12 @@ impl ButtonState {
         }
     }
 
-    /// The shown bit (`+0xc4`) of a state or checked texture, which the state switch writes for
-    /// the one that shows (`0x7797ea`, `0x785538`) and clears on the rest: `None` for every other
-    /// region, whose bit is its own `Show`/`Hide` alone.
-    pub fn state_region_shown(&self, rh: RegionHandle) -> Option<bool> {
-        let some = Some(rh);
-        if some == self.normal || some == self.pushed || some == self.disabled {
-            return Some(some == self.shown);
-        }
-        if some == self.checked_tex || some == self.disabled_checked {
-            return Some(self.region_visible(rh, false));
-        }
-        None
-    }
-
-    /// Whether a region of this button draws: a state texture only when shown, the highlight
-    /// while hovered or locked, the checked pair by their rule, anything else always.
-    pub fn region_visible(&self, rh: RegionHandle, hovered: bool) -> bool {
-        let some = Some(rh);
-        if some == self.normal || some == self.pushed || some == self.disabled {
-            return some == self.shown;
-        }
-        if some == self.highlight {
-            // No `enabled` term: `Disable()` turns the whole HIGHLIGHT layer off before this.
-            return hovered || self.locked_highlight;
-        }
-        if some == self.checked_tex {
-            return self.checked && (self.enabled() || self.disabled_checked.is_none());
-        }
-        if some == self.disabled_checked {
-            return self.checked && !self.enabled();
-        }
-        true
+    /// Whether the Highlight region draws: while hovered or locked. The reference gates it by its
+    /// layer's enable (`0x76b6a0`/`0x76b6f0`), not by its shown bit, which it keeps from the
+    /// link (`0x779139`); every other region of a Button draws by its own bit alone.
+    pub fn highlight_draws(&self, rh: RegionHandle, hovered: bool) -> bool {
+        // No `enabled` term: `Disable()` turns the whole HIGHLIGHT layer off before this.
+        Some(rh) != self.highlight || hovered || self.locked_highlight
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/widget/mod.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/widget/mod.rs
index 64209741..67643e69 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/widget/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/widget/mod.rs
@@ -122,8 +122,8 @@ pub use kinds::{
     ButtonState, ButtonVisualState, ColorSelectState, EditAction, EditBoxState, EditOutcome,
     EditUnit, FrameKind, InsertMode, KindState, KindUpdate, MessageFrameState, MessageLine,
     MinimapState, ModelFileFacts, ModelFog, ModelLight, ModelPlayHead, ModelState, RegionKind,
-    ScrollFrameState, ScrollingMessageState, SequenceFacts, SliderState, StatusBarState,
-    TooltipAnchor, TooltipState, MINIMAP_DEFAULT_ARROW_MODEL, MINIMAP_DEFAULT_MASK,
+    ScrollFrameState, ScrollingMessageState, SequenceFacts, ShownWrites, SliderState,
+    StatusBarState, TooltipAnchor, TooltipState, MINIMAP_DEFAULT_ARROW_MODEL, MINIMAP_DEFAULT_MASK,
     MINIMAP_DEFAULT_PLAYER_MODEL, MINIMAP_DEFAULT_ZOOM, MINIMAP_ENGINE_CHILDREN,
     MINIMAP_ZOOM_LEVELS, TOOLTIP_DOUBLE_GAP, TOOLTIP_FADE_SECS, TOOLTIP_LINE_GAP, TOOLTIP_PAD,
     TOOLTIP_WRAP_WIDTH,
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/widget/tests.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/widget/tests.rs
index 39355551..b42f6c7f 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/widget/tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/widget/tests.rs
@@ -424,7 +424,7 @@ fn a_region_leaving_its_parent_empties_the_kind_slot_that_held_it() {
     match &mut a.frame_mut(check).unwrap().kind_state {
         KindState::Button(s) => {
             s.checked_tex = Some(c);
-            s.set_state_slot(ButtonVisualState::Normal, Some(n));
+            let _ = s.set_state_slot(ButtonVisualState::Normal, Some(n));
         }
         _ => unreachable!(),
     }