diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/ui_scale_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/ui_scale_tests.rs
index f38e9942..bb8358cf 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/ui_scale_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/ui_scale_tests.rs
@@ -170,6 +170,10 @@ fn the_stock_interface_inside_uiparent_is_unmoved_by_where_the_scale_lives() {
     let (w, h) = (768.0 * 16.0 / 9.0, 768.0);
     let mut script = UiScript::new().expect("VM");
     script.set_screen_size(w, h);
+    // Art with an extent, as the app's probe gives it, so a texture sized 0 on an axis (a tab's
+    // middle, sized by its unmeasured label) resolves instead of failing: a failed texture keeps
+    // the quad its last good resolve wrote, which no later scale moves.
+    script.set_texture_size_probe(Box::new(|_| Some((32, 32))));
     let failures = super::load_default_ui(&script);
     assert!(
         failures.is_empty(),
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/layout.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/layout.rs
index 158c09ea..6f20c213 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/layout.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/layout.rs
@@ -809,9 +809,15 @@ pub struct LayoutSolver {
     is_frame: Vec<bool>,
     /// Externals as seeded, frames as they resolve.
     rect: Vec<Option<Rect>>,
-    /// Per frame, the rect it held before this round, which [`keeps_rect`] holds a new one against;
-    /// `None` stores the new rect whole, as the reference does while the resolved bit is clear.
+    /// Per node, the rect it held when this resolve began, its valid bit set, else `None`
+    /// ([`set_entry`](Self::set_entry)): what [`keeps_rect`] holds a new rect against, what a node
+    /// the resolve need not revisit keeps, and what a target's change is measured from.
     cached: Vec<Option<Rect>>,
+    /// Per node, whether [`set_entry`](Self::set_entry) gave its entry state. A frame without one
+    /// is solved from its inputs alone, as if invalidated.
+    has_entry: Vec<bool>,
+    /// Per frame, whether it was invalidated (`0x7680e0`) since its entry state.
+    pending: Vec<bool>,
     /// The keep test's threshold in the rects' units; 0 keeps nothing.
     keep_eps: f64,
     /// Kahn in-degree and reverse edges; each inner `Vec` is cleared, never freed.
@@ -841,6 +847,8 @@ impl LayoutSolver {
             self.is_frame.resize(need, false);
             self.rect.resize(need, None);
             self.cached.resize(need, None);
+            self.has_entry.resize(need, false);
+            self.pending.resize(need, false);
             self.indeg.resize(need, 0);
             self.dependents.resize_with(need, Vec::new);
             self.marked.resize(need, false);
@@ -864,6 +872,8 @@ impl LayoutSolver {
             self.is_frame[i] = false;
             self.rect[i] = None;
             self.cached[i] = None;
+            self.has_entry[i] = false;
+            self.pending[i] = false;
             self.indeg[i] = 0;
             self.dependents[i].clear();
             self.marked[i] = false;
@@ -907,12 +917,71 @@ impl LayoutSolver {
         self.live.push(h);
     }
 
-    /// Give registered frame `h` the rect it holds, so a new one within the keep threshold
-    /// ([`set_keep_eps`](Self::set_keep_eps)) leaves it standing, for `h` and its dependents alike.
-    pub fn set_cached(&mut self, h: Handle, rect: Rect) {
+    /// The state node `h` was in when this resolve began, its rect while its valid bit is set,
+    /// and whether it was invalidated since (`0x7680e0`: its own write, a cleared valid bit).
+    ///
+    /// The reference resolves only what is invalidated: by its own write, or by a target's
+    /// resolve that stored a new rect (`0x768cf0`). A failed resolve stores nothing and skips that
+    /// slot (`0x768d55`), and `ClearAllPoints` invalidates nothing (`0x767620`). So a node not
+    /// reached keeps this state when its resolve fails or reads a target with no rect. Any other
+    /// node not reached is recomputed, which gives back its state only if every write that moved
+    /// its inputs since also invalidated it; the solver cannot tell one that did not. The rect is
+    /// also what the keep test ([`set_keep_eps`](Self::set_keep_eps)) holds a new one against.
+    pub fn set_entry(&mut self, h: Handle, rect: Option<Rect>, invalidated: bool) {
         self.ensure(h);
         self.touch(h);
-        self.cached[h as usize] = Some(rect);
+        let i = h as usize;
+        self.cached[i] = rect;
+        self.has_entry[i] = true;
+        self.pending[i] = invalidated;
+    }
+
+    /// Whether `h` now holds a rect it did not hold at entry: a resolve that stored a new rect,
+    /// which invalidates what anchors to `h`. A frame given no entry counts any rect as new; an
+    /// external given none never changes.
+    #[inline]
+    pub fn changed(&self, h: Handle) -> bool {
+        let i = h as usize;
+        let Some(now) = self.rect.get(i).copied().flatten() else {
+            return false;
+        };
+        if self.has_entry[i] {
+            self.cached[i] != Some(now)
+        } else {
+            self.is_frame[i]
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Whether node `h` takes the rect its inputs give it, by the rule [`set_entry`]
+    /// documents: when it was invalidated, when an anchor target stored a new rect, or when the
+    /// rect resolved against targets that all hold one. `reads` lists its anchor targets.
+    ///
+    /// [`set_entry`]: Self::set_entry
+    pub fn takes_resolve(
+        &self,
+        h: Handle,
+        resolved: bool,
+        reads: impl Iterator<Item = Handle>,
+    ) -> bool {
+        let i = h as usize;
+        if !self.has_entry.get(i).copied().unwrap_or(false) || self.pending[i] {
+            return true;
+        }
+        let mut reads_failed = false;
+        for t in reads {
+            if self.rect(t).is_none() {
+                reads_failed = true;
+            } else if self.changed(t) {
+                return true;
+            }
+        }
+        resolved && !reads_failed
+    }
+
+    /// The entry rect of node `h`, which it keeps when the resolve does not reach it.
+    #[inline]
+    pub fn entry(&self, h: Handle) -> Option<Rect> {
+        self.cached.get(h as usize).copied().flatten()
     }
 
     /// The keep test's threshold, [`RESOLVE_EPS`] in the rects' units; kept across rounds.
@@ -991,15 +1060,26 @@ impl LayoutSolver {
     }
 
     fn resolve_one(&mut self, h: Handle) {
+        let i = h as usize;
         let outcome = {
-            let input = &self.input[h as usize];
+            let input = &self.input[i];
             let rects = &self.rect;
             resolve_rect(input, |t| rects.get(t as usize).copied().flatten())
         };
+        let anchors = self.input[i].anchors;
+        let resolved = matches!(outcome, ResolveOutcome::Resolved(_));
+        if !self.takes_resolve(h, resolved, anchors.iter().map(|a| a.relative_to)) {
+            // Not reached: the entry state stands, rect or none.
+            self.rect[i] = self.cached[i];
+            if self.rect[i].is_none() {
+                self.unresolvable.push(h);
+            }
+            return;
+        }
         match outcome {
             ResolveOutcome::Resolved(r) => {
-                let kept = self.cached[h as usize].filter(|&c| keeps_rect(c, r, self.keep_eps));
-                self.rect[h as usize] = Some(kept.unwrap_or(r));
+                let kept = self.cached[i].filter(|&c| keeps_rect(c, r, self.keep_eps));
+                self.rect[i] = Some(kept.unwrap_or(r));
             }
             ResolveOutcome::Unresolvable => self.unresolvable.push(h),
         }
@@ -1484,7 +1564,7 @@ mod tests {
                     20.0,
                 ),
             );
-            s.set_cached(A, Rect::new(0.0, 10.0, 20.0, 30.0));
+            s.set_entry(A, Some(Rect::new(0.0, 10.0, 20.0, 30.0)), true);
             s.set_frame(
                 B,
                 &LayoutInput::sized(
@@ -1510,6 +1590,82 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(b.left, a.right);
     }
 
+    /// A frame with no anchors keeps the rect it entered with until it is invalidated, and what
+    /// anchors to a frame whose resolve fails keeps its own: a failed resolve reaches nothing.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_node_not_reached_keeps_its_entry_state() {
+        const A: Handle = 1;
+        const B: Handle = 2;
+        let held = Rect::new(0.0, 10.0, 20.0, 30.0);
+        let below = Rect::new(-5.0, 30.0, 0.0, 35.0);
+        let solve = |a_invalidated: bool| {
+            let mut s = LayoutSolver::new();
+            s.begin();
+            s.set_external(SCREEN, screen_rect());
+            s.set_frame(A, &LayoutInput::sized(vec![], 20.0, 20.0));
+            s.set_entry(A, Some(held), a_invalidated);
+            s.set_frame(
+                B,
+                &LayoutInput::sized(
+                    vec![Anchor::new(Point::TopLeft, A, Point::BottomRight, 0.0, 0.0)],
+                    5.0,
+                    5.0,
+                ),
+            );
+            s.set_entry(B, Some(below), false);
+            s.solve();
+            (s.rect(A), s.rect(B))
+        };
+        assert_eq!(solve(false), (Some(held), Some(below)), "nothing reached A");
+        assert_eq!(
+            solve(true),
+            (None, Some(below)),
+            "A fails, and B is not reached"
+        );
+    }
+
+    /// A target that stores a new rect reaches what anchors to it, which resolves again.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_target_with_a_new_rect_reaches_its_dependents() {
+        const A: Handle = 1;
+        const B: Handle = 2;
+        let mut s = LayoutSolver::new();
+        s.begin();
+        s.set_external(SCREEN, screen_rect());
+        s.set_frame(
+            A,
+            &LayoutInput::sized(
+                vec![Anchor::new(
+                    Point::BottomLeft,
+                    SCREEN,
+                    Point::BottomLeft,
+                    10.0,
+                    0.0,
+                )],
+                20.0,
+                20.0,
+            ),
+        );
+        s.set_entry(A, None, true);
+        s.set_frame(
+            B,
+            &LayoutInput::sized(
+                vec![Anchor::new(
+                    Point::BottomLeft,
+                    A,
+                    Point::BottomRight,
+                    0.0,
+                    0.0,
+                )],
+                5.0,
+                5.0,
+            ),
+        );
+        s.set_entry(B, Some(Rect::new(0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0)), false);
+        s.solve();
+        assert_eq!(s.rect(B), Some(Rect::new(0.0, 30.0, 5.0, 35.0)));
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn size_changed_epsilon() {
         let r = Rect::new(0.0, 0.0, 40.0, 100.0);
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/extract.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/extract.rs
index 5a88c99f..c3d8dc87 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/extract.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/extract.rs
@@ -302,20 +302,26 @@ impl UiScript {
                     if let Some(c) = state_color {
                         data.vertex_color = Some(c);
                     }
-                    // A region draws at its resolved rect only: drawable regions carry anchors
-                    // (authored, or `region::implicit_creation_anchor`) and a failed resolve
-                    // latches unresolvable (`0x768d55`), so an unanchored Lua region draws nowhere,
-                    // as in the reference. The bar fill and thumbs keep their fraction geometry.
+                    // A region draws at its resolved rect: drawable regions carry anchors
+                    // (authored, or `region::implicit_creation_anchor`), so a region that never
+                    // resolved draws nowhere, as in the reference. After a failed resolve
+                    // (`0x768d55`) a FontString stops (`0x7730b7` needs the valid bit) and a
+                    // Texture keeps the quad its last good resolve wrote (`0x7706e0`). The bar
+                    // fill and thumbs keep their fraction geometry.
                     if let Some(sb) = bar_fill {
                         data.tex_coords = Some(bar_fill_uv(data.tex_coords, sb));
                     }
-                    if bar_fill.is_none() && !thumb_fill && !color_thumb {
-                        rect = model.region_resolved.get(&rh).copied();
-                    }
                     let is_text = matches!(
                         region.map(|r| r.kind),
                         Some(crate::widget::RegionKind::FontString)
                     );
+                    if bar_fill.is_none() && !thumb_fill && !color_thumb {
+                        rect = model.region_resolved.get(&rh).copied().or_else(|| {
+                            (!is_text)
+                                .then(|| model.region_kept.get(&rh).copied())
+                                .flatten()
+                        });
+                    }
                     // Generated art fills only an empty slot (`ColorPickerFrame.xml` sets none).
                     let content = if let Some(art) =
                         color_art.filter(|_| data.texture.is_none() && data.fill.is_none())
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/font_block.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/font_block.rs
index b7f04675..ef345c68 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/font_block.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/font_block.rs
@@ -264,6 +264,15 @@ pub(super) fn install(
                 d.font_explicit.height = true;
                 let after = (d.font_path.clone(), d.font_height, d.outline);
                 model.touch_measure(rh);
+                // A FontString's load of another face, height or flags clears its valid bit and
+                // invalidates (`0x7715e0`); the same font returns first (`0x771541`), and a freed
+                // one skips it (`0x7715b9`).
+                if kind == FontKind::FontString
+                    && load == Load::Loaded
+                    && before.as_ref() != Some(&after)
+                {
+                    model.clear_region_valid(rh);
+                }
                 drop(model);
                 // A load that changed the path, height or flags notifies (`0x79f32f` sets the
                 // change bits, `0x79f342` calls the notify).
@@ -423,6 +432,11 @@ pub(super) fn install(
                 // Clears inherit bit `0x10` (`0x79e37b`, `0x79fbb1`).
                 d.font_explicit.spacing = true;
                 model.touch_measure(rh);
+                // A FontString's new spacing clears its valid bit and invalidates (`0x771666`);
+                // the same one returns first (`0x77161c`).
+                if changed && kind == FontKind::FontString {
+                    model.clear_region_valid(rh);
+                }
                 changed
             };
             if changed {
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/layout.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/layout.rs
index d87270e0..688acc92 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/layout.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/layout.rs
@@ -422,8 +422,9 @@ impl LayoutScope {
             && self.last.get(id as usize) == Some(&hash)
     }
 
-    /// Drop region node `id` from the roster with its edges, seeding it so what read its rect
-    /// re-resolves without it. Returns the row it held.
+    /// Drop region node `id` from the roster with its edges, seeding it so the closure revisits
+    /// what read its rect; nothing invalidates those, so they keep their state. Returns the row
+    /// it held.
     fn remove_region(&mut self, id: u32, n: u32) -> RegionRow {
         let idx = (n & !REGION_TAG) as usize;
         let row = self.regions.swap_remove(idx);
@@ -819,6 +820,7 @@ impl UiScript {
     pub(super) fn scratch_divergence(model: &mut Model) -> Option<String> {
         let cached = std::mem::take(&mut model.layout_scope);
         let before = (model.resolved.clone(), model.region_resolved.clone());
+        let kept_before = model.region_kept.clone();
         let meters = (
             model.layout_solves,
             model.layout_rounds,
@@ -865,6 +867,14 @@ impl UiScript {
                 graph.as_deref().unwrap_or("same as fresh"),
             ));
         }
+        if kept_before != model.region_kept {
+            return Some(format!(
+                "an INCREMENTAL layout pass kept failed textures' quads {kept_before:?}, a full \
+                 derivation {:?}. Graph: {}",
+                model.region_kept,
+                graph.as_deref().unwrap_or("same as fresh"),
+            ));
+        }
         graph.map(|why| {
             format!(
                 "the cached layout graph diverged from a fresh derivation after an INCREMENTAL \
@@ -897,6 +907,9 @@ impl UiScript {
         // The GameTooltip pre-pass writes tooltip sizes and offsets from cached measures.
         super::tooltip::layout_tooltips(model);
         pre.tooltip = pre.lap();
+        // The invalidations since the last resolve, the pre-pass's included, each answered by this
+        // one, as the reference drains its whole queue (`0x768ed0`).
+        let pending = std::mem::take(&mut model.layout_pending);
         // ── `OnSizeChanged`'s "before" ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
         // The reference fires it per rect application (`ApplyRect 0x76b580`); our batch fixpoint
         // fires on the entry-vs-convergence diff, never on a half-solved round. Only frames with
@@ -925,7 +938,10 @@ impl UiScript {
             resolved,
             region_data,
             region_resolved,
+            region_kept,
             frame_to_id,
+            id_to_frame,
+            id_to_region,
             screen,
             warnings,
             diagnostics,
@@ -941,21 +957,60 @@ impl UiScript {
             pending_size_changed,
             texture_size_probe,
             layout_force,
+            layout_screen,
             ..
         } = model;
         let mut full_scope = false;
         // The nodes this resolve stores without the keep test; a write that cleared the resolved
         // bit of no node (an unanchored region's measure) leaves nothing to store.
         let mut forced = std::mem::take(layout_force);
+        // An invalidated region with no anchors is no node, and its resolve can only fail
+        // (`0x768d55`): its valid bit clears, a Texture keeps its last quad. So does one whose
+        // owner's scale moved, which the cascade invalidates (`0x76ad06`).
+        let fail_loose = |rh: RegionHandle,
+                          region_resolved: &mut HashMap<RegionHandle, Rect>,
+                          region_kept: &mut HashMap<RegionHandle, Rect>| {
+            let Some(r) = arena.region(rh) else { return };
+            if region_data.get(&rh).is_some_and(|d| !d.anchors.is_empty()) {
+                return;
+            }
+            if let Some(rect) = region_resolved.remove(&rh) {
+                if !matches!(r.kind, crate::widget::RegionKind::FontString) {
+                    region_kept.insert(rh, rect);
+                }
+            }
+        };
+        for &id in &pending {
+            if let Some(&rh) = id_to_region.get(&id) {
+                fail_loose(rh, region_resolved, region_kept);
+            }
+        }
+        for &id in &forced {
+            if let Some(&rh) = id_to_region.get(&id) {
+                fail_loose(rh, region_resolved, region_kept);
+            } else if let Some(f) = id_to_frame.get(&id).and_then(|&h| arena.frame(h)) {
+                for &rh in &f.regions {
+                    fail_loose(rh, region_resolved, region_kept);
+                }
+            }
+        }
         forced.retain(|&id| {
             scope
                 .node_of
                 .get(id as usize)
                 .is_some_and(|&n| n != u32::MAX)
         });
+        let mut pending = pending;
+        pending.retain(|&id| {
+            scope
+                .node_of
+                .get(id as usize)
+                .is_some_and(|&n| n != u32::MAX)
+        });
         // An incremental pass has no fingerprint; its verdict is `staged`, exactly the seed set.
-        // A forced node is solved even with its inputs unmoved.
+        // A forced or invalidated node is solved even with its inputs unmoved.
         let gate_skips = forced.is_empty()
+            && pending.is_empty()
             && match fp {
                 Some(_) => *layout_fingerprint == fp,
                 None => scope.staged.is_empty(),
@@ -1031,19 +1086,28 @@ impl UiScript {
                 scope.close();
             }
         }
-        // A forced node, and whatever reads it, is solved: the store it owes moves its rect.
-        for &id in &forced {
+        // A forced or invalidated node, and whatever reads it, is solved: the store it owes moves
+        // its rect.
+        for &id in forced.iter().chain(&pending) {
             scope.seed(id);
         }
         scope.close();
         let mut force_mask: Vec<bool> = Vec::new();
-        if !forced.is_empty() {
+        let mut invalid_mask: Vec<bool> = Vec::new();
+        if !forced.is_empty() || !pending.is_empty() {
             force_mask.resize(scope.node_of.len(), false);
+            invalid_mask.resize(scope.node_of.len(), false);
             for &id in &forced {
                 force_mask[id as usize] = true;
+                invalid_mask[id as usize] = true;
+            }
+            for &id in &pending {
+                invalid_mask[id as usize] = true;
             }
         }
         let is_forced = |id: u32| force_mask.get(id as usize).copied().unwrap_or(false);
+        // Invalidated since the last resolve (`0x7680e0`): solved from its inputs, never kept.
+        let is_invalid = |id: u32| invalid_mask.get(id as usize).copied().unwrap_or(false);
         // A dirty frame is solved, a dirty region swept, and whatever they read is seeded at its
         // cached rect. A dirty region is seeded too, since the frame pass runs before the sweep.
         let mut solve_frames: Vec<u32> = Vec::new();
@@ -1061,9 +1125,21 @@ impl UiScript {
             }
             false
         };
+        // A cleared region is no node but keeps its rect, which what anchors to it still reads.
+        let mut seed_loose: Vec<(u32, Rect)> = Vec::new();
         for id in 0..scope.node_of.len() {
             let n = scope.node_of[id];
             if n == u32::MAX {
+                #[allow(clippy::cast_possible_truncation)]
+                let id32 = id as u32;
+                if scope.dep_head[id] != u32::MAX && read_by_dirty(scope, id32) {
+                    if let Some(r) = id_to_region
+                        .get(&id32)
+                        .and_then(|rh| region_resolved.get(rh))
+                    {
+                        seed_loose.push((id32, *r));
+                    }
+                }
                 continue;
             }
             let (idx, is_region, dirty) = (n & !REGION_TAG, n & REGION_TAG != 0, scope.dirty[id]);
@@ -1099,14 +1175,15 @@ impl UiScript {
                     .flatten()
             })
             .collect();
-        let entry_regions: Vec<Option<Rect>> = sweep_regions
+        let entry_regions: Vec<(Option<Rect>, bool)> = sweep_regions
             .iter()
             .map(|&i| {
                 let row = scope.regions[i as usize];
                 let owner_forced = frame_to_id.get(&row.owner).is_some_and(|&o| is_forced(o));
-                (!is_forced(row.id) && !owner_forced)
+                let cached = (!is_forced(row.id) && !owner_forced)
                     .then(|| region_resolved.get(&row.rh).copied())
-                    .flatten()
+                    .flatten();
+                (cached, is_invalid(row.id) || owner_forced)
             })
             .collect();
         solver.set_keep_eps(resolve_eps);
@@ -1124,12 +1201,20 @@ impl UiScript {
             // Seed the screen root and every read rect this pass does not recompute.
             solver.begin();
             solver.set_external(SCREEN, *screen);
+            // The screen the last converged resolve read: a move reaches what anchors to it.
+            solver.set_entry(SCREEN, *layout_screen, false);
             for &i in &seed_regions {
                 let n = scope.regions[i as usize];
                 if let Some(r) = region_resolved.get(&n.rh) {
                     solver.set_external(n.id, *r);
                 }
             }
+            for &(id, r) in &seed_loose {
+                solver.set_external(id, r);
+            }
+            for (&i, &(cached, invalid)) in sweep_regions.iter().zip(&entry_regions) {
+                solver.set_entry(scope.regions[i as usize].id, cached, invalid);
+            }
             for &i in &seed_frames {
                 let (h, id, _) = scope.plan[i as usize];
                 if let Some(r) = resolved.get(&h) {
@@ -1145,9 +1230,7 @@ impl UiScript {
                     Some(a) => solver.set_frame_anchored(id, input, a),
                     None => solver.set_frame(id, input),
                 }
-                if let Some(c) = cached {
-                    solver.set_cached(id, c);
-                }
+                solver.set_entry(id, cached, is_invalid(id));
             }
             solver.solve();
             for &i in &solve_frames {
@@ -1175,7 +1258,7 @@ impl UiScript {
             }
             let t_reg = prof.then(std::time::Instant::now);
             let mut scratch = LayoutInput::default();
-            for (&ri, &cached) in sweep_regions.iter().zip(&entry_regions) {
+            for (&ri, &(cached, _)) in sweep_regions.iter().zip(&entry_regions) {
                 let RegionRow {
                     rh,
                     id: region_id,
@@ -1247,10 +1330,36 @@ impl UiScript {
                 };
                 let vertical = axis(edges[0], edges[2]);
                 let horizontal = axis(edges[1], edges[3]);
-                let (Some((bottom, top)), Some((left, right))) = (vertical, horizontal) else {
-                    // Unresolvable: drop its rect, so it stops drawing instead of going stale.
-                    if region_resolved.remove(&rh).is_some() {
+                let resolved_edges = vertical.zip(horizontal);
+                // Not reached since its entry: it keeps its state, rect or none (see
+                // `LayoutSolver::set_entry`).
+                let reads = data.anchors.iter().map(|a| a.relative_to);
+                if !solver.takes_resolve(region_id, resolved_edges.is_some(), reads) {
+                    match solver.entry(region_id) {
+                        Some(kept) => {
+                            solver.set_external(region_id, kept);
+                            if region_resolved.get(&rh) != Some(&kept) {
+                                region_resolved.insert(rh, kept);
+                                changed = true;
+                            }
+                        }
+                        None => {
+                            if region_resolved.remove(&rh).is_some() {
+                                changed = true;
+                            }
+                        }
+                    }
+                    continue;
+                }
+                let Some(((bottom, top), (left, right))) = resolved_edges else {
+                    // The failed resolve (`0x768d55`) clears the valid bit, so the getters and a
+                    // FontString's draw lose the rect; a Texture keeps the quad its last good
+                    // resolve wrote (`0x770670`), as its emit checks only its texture (`0x7706e0`).
+                    if let Some(last) = region_resolved.remove(&rh) {
                         changed = true;
+                        if !is_fontstring {
+                            region_kept.insert(rh, last);
+                        }
                     }
                     continue;
                 };
@@ -1265,6 +1374,7 @@ impl UiScript {
                     region_resolved.insert(rh, rect);
                     changed = true;
                 }
+                region_kept.remove(&rh);
             }
 
             if let Some(t) = t_reg {
@@ -1301,6 +1411,7 @@ impl UiScript {
                     );
                 }
                 *layout_fingerprint = fp;
+                *layout_screen = Some(*screen);
                 // Adopted only on convergence; an incremental pass adopts only what it re-hashed.
                 if incremental {
                     scope.commit_incremental();
@@ -1358,6 +1469,7 @@ impl UiScript {
             layout_inputs,
             region_data,
             region_resolved,
+            region_kept,
             frame_to_id,
             id_to_region,
             region_to_id,
@@ -1434,12 +1546,10 @@ impl UiScript {
         // alternates a frame solve and a region sweep until a round changes no rect, compared
         // exactly. The round cap is the node count, so only a cycle exhausts it, warned like the
         // reference's resolving-flag bail. Every rect is recomputed from inputs and externals and
-        // held against its own cached rect, so last frame's rects are a legal seed: only dead or
-        // unanchored regions drop.
-        region_resolved.retain(|rh, _| {
-            arena.region(*rh).is_some()
-                && region_data.get(rh).is_some_and(|d| !d.anchors.is_empty())
-        });
+        // held against its own cached rect, so last frame's rects are a legal seed: only dead
+        // regions drop. A cleared one keeps its rect until its own next invalidate.
+        region_resolved.retain(|rh, _| arena.region(*rh).is_some() && region_data.contains_key(rh));
+        region_kept.retain(|rh, _| arena.region(*rh).is_some() && region_data.contains_key(rh));
         pre.retain = pre.lap();
 
         // ── The change gate ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
@@ -1565,6 +1675,7 @@ impl UiScript {
             layout_inputs,
             region_data,
             region_resolved,
+            region_kept,
             frame_to_id,
             id_to_frame,
             id_to_region,
@@ -1681,8 +1792,12 @@ impl UiScript {
             });
             let Some((rh, r, data)) = live else {
                 if is_region_node {
+                    // A cleared region leaves the graph but keeps its rect; a dead one drops it.
                     let row = scope.remove_region(id, n);
-                    region_resolved.remove(&row.rh);
+                    if arena.region(row.rh).is_none() || !region_data.contains_key(&row.rh) {
+                        region_resolved.remove(&row.rh);
+                        region_kept.remove(&row.rh);
+                    }
                 } else if n != u32::MAX {
                     scope.targets = targets;
                     return false;
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/model.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/model.rs
index 35eac102..8b95202b 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/model.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/model.rs
@@ -142,6 +142,15 @@ pub(crate) struct Model {
     /// measure landed, benilla's moment for `SetText` and `SetFont` (`0x771ea4`, `0x7715e0`). Each
     /// is named on the layout too, so the resolve that drains this list solves it.
     pub(crate) layout_force: Vec<u32>,
+    /// Layout ids invalidated since the last resolve (`0x7680e0` on the node): a write the
+    /// reference queues a resolve for, `SetPoint`, `SetWidth` and the like, but not
+    /// `ClearAllPoints` (`0x767620`). The next resolve solves each one from its inputs, where a
+    /// node nothing invalidated keeps a state a recompute could change
+    /// ([`Model::invalidate_frame`]).
+    pub(crate) layout_pending: Vec<u32>,
+    /// The screen the last converged resolve laid out against: a frame anchored to it is reached
+    /// when it moves, as by any target's new rect.
+    pub(crate) layout_screen: Option<Rect>,
     /// Under `WOW_LAYOUT_VERIFY`, the resolve just taken was incremental and owes a full re-run.
     pub(crate) layout_verify_recheck: bool,
     /// Per-node input hashes and dirty-closure scratch: which nodes a let-through resolve solves.
@@ -174,8 +183,14 @@ pub(crate) struct Model {
     /// Named `<Font>` objects by lowercased name, as 1.12 matches them with `SStrCmpI` (`0x783870`,
     /// `0x7838c7`); read them only through `font_object`, where the fold lives.
     pub(crate) font_objects_by_lower: HashMap<String, FontObject>,
-    /// Anchored regions' owner-relative rects from the last resolve; anchor-less ones are absent.
+    /// Each region's rect while its valid bit is set: what its getters and a FontString's draw
+    /// read (`GetRect 0x768320`, `0x7730b7`). A cleared region keeps its rect until its own next
+    /// invalidate, as `ClearAllPoints` queues no resolve (`0x767620`).
     pub(crate) region_resolved: HashMap<RegionHandle, Rect>,
+    /// A Texture whose resolve failed: the rect its last good resolve placed it at, which it keeps
+    /// drawing, as the failed resolve (`0x768d55`) leaves the quad `0x770670` wrote and its emit
+    /// checks only its texture (`0x7706e0`). Dropped when it resolves again.
+    pub(crate) region_kept: HashMap<RegionHandle, Rect>,
 
     /// The next object id to mint; ids start at 1, since 0 is `SCREEN`.
     pub(crate) next_id: u32,
@@ -1123,6 +1138,7 @@ impl Model {
             simple_html: simplehtml::SimpleHtmlStates::new(),
             font_objects_by_lower: HashMap::new(),
             region_resolved: HashMap::new(),
+            region_kept: HashMap::new(),
             next_id: 1,
             id_to_frame: IdMap::default(),
             frame_to_id: HashMap::new(),
@@ -1150,6 +1166,8 @@ impl Model {
             pending_size_changed: Vec::new(),
             text_flips: Vec::new(),
             layout_force: Vec::new(),
+            layout_pending: Vec::new(),
+            layout_screen: None,
             errors: Vec::new(),
             pending_error_dispatch: Vec::new(),
             diagnostics: Default::default(),
@@ -1668,6 +1686,80 @@ impl Model {
         }
     }
 
+    /// A write the reference invalidates frame `h` for (`0x7680e0`): `SetPoint`, `SetWidth`,
+    /// `SetClampedToScreen` and the like, which pass `changed` for whether it moved an input. One
+    /// that moved nothing is skipped, as a re-resolve gives back the rect the frame holds, unless
+    /// the frame holds one a re-resolve would not give it ([`Self::frame_holds_stale`]).
+    pub(crate) fn invalidate_frame(&mut self, h: FrameHandle, changed: bool) {
+        if !changed && !self.frame_holds_stale(h) {
+            return;
+        }
+        self.touch_layout_frame(h);
+        if let Some(&id) = self.frame_to_id.get(&h) {
+            self.layout_pending.push(id);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// [`Self::invalidate_frame`] for region `rh`.
+    pub(crate) fn invalidate_region(&mut self, rh: RegionHandle, changed: bool) {
+        if !changed && !self.region_holds_stale(rh) {
+            return;
+        }
+        // A region with no id was never anchored, so it holds no rect to lose.
+        self.touch_layout_region(rh);
+        if let Some(&id) = self.region_to_id.get(&rh) {
+            self.layout_pending.push(id);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// A write that clears region `rh`'s valid bit and invalidates it, as a FontString's new
+    /// string (`0x771ea4`), font (`0x7715e0`) or spacing (`0x771666`) does: the next resolve stores
+    /// its rect whole, and that store reaches what anchors to it (`0x768cf0`).
+    pub(crate) fn clear_region_valid(&mut self, rh: RegionHandle) {
+        // A region with no id was never anchored, so it holds no rect.
+        self.touch_layout_region(rh);
+        if let Some(&id) = self.region_to_id.get(&rh) {
+            self.layout_force.push(id);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Whether frame `h` holds a rect its inputs would not resolve to now: it has no anchors, or
+    /// reads a target with no rect, so the rect stands only because nothing invalidated it since.
+    pub(crate) fn frame_holds_stale(&self, h: FrameHandle) -> bool {
+        if !self.resolved.contains_key(&h) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        self.layout_inputs
+            .get(&h)
+            .is_none_or(|i| self.anchors_hold_stale(&i.anchors, false))
+    }
+
+    /// [`Self::frame_holds_stale`] for region `rh`.
+    pub(crate) fn region_holds_stale(&self, rh: RegionHandle) -> bool {
+        if !self.region_resolved.contains_key(&rh) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        self.region_data
+            .get(&rh)
+            .is_none_or(|d| self.anchors_hold_stale(&d.anchors, true))
+    }
+
+    /// No anchors, or one whose target has no rect; a region reads none at the screen root.
+    fn anchors_hold_stale(&self, anchors: &crate::layout::Anchors, region: bool) -> bool {
+        anchors.is_empty()
+            || anchors.iter().any(|a| {
+                let t = a.relative_to;
+                if t == super::SCREEN {
+                    return region;
+                }
+                match (self.id_to_frame.get(&t), self.id_to_region.get(&t)) {
+                    (Some(f), _) => !self.resolved.contains_key(f),
+                    (_, Some(r)) => !self.region_resolved.contains_key(r),
+                    _ => true,
+                }
+            })
+    }
+
     /// Every frame under `root`, inclusive, for a write that moves the effective scale down a
     /// subtree (`SetParent`, `SetScale`); anchor targets are ids fixed at `SetPoint`, so only the
     /// scale moves. Addon pools reparent hundreds of frames a redraw, so this stays precise.
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/object.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/object.rs
index 5daedb04..b88c016f 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/object.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/object.rs
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ mod events_regions;
 mod frame_state;
 mod layout_methods;
 pub(crate) use layout_methods::eff_scale;
+pub(in crate::script) use layout_methods::settle;
 pub(crate) mod movable;
 pub(crate) mod toplevel;
 pub(crate) use movable::{cancel_on_hide, pump_move_or_size, FrameMove, FrameSizing};
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/object/frame_state.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/object/frame_state.rs
index 951b394a..c79722de 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/object/frame_state.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/object/frame_state.rs
@@ -675,9 +675,8 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua, m: &Table) -> mlua::Result<()> {
             let mut model = lua.app_data_mut::<Model>().expect("model");
             let changed = model.arena.is_clamped_to_screen(h) != clamp;
             model.arena.set_clamped_to_screen(h, clamp);
-            if changed {
-                model.touch_layout_frame(h);
-            }
+            // `0x768cc0` invalidates whether or not the flag moved.
+            model.invalidate_frame(h, changed);
             Ok(())
         })?,
     )?;
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/object/layout_methods.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/object/layout_methods.rs
index b3f66682..e46740f2 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/object/layout_methods.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/object/layout_methods.rs
@@ -38,8 +38,10 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua, m: &Table) -> mlua::Result<()> {
     set_shared(lua, m, Side::Frame, "ClearAllPoints", |lua, this: Table| {
         let h = frame_handle_of(lua, &this)?;
         let mut model = lua.app_data_mut::<Model>().expect("model");
-        // Every layout setter mutates only on a real change, so a per-frame caller setting the
-        // same value never reopens the layout gate.
+        // `0x767620` frees the anchors and unhooks each from its target, and queues no resolve:
+        // the frame keeps its rect until its own next invalidate. Named, as the graph loses the
+        // edges. Every layout setter mutates only on a real change, so a per-frame caller setting
+        // the same value never reopens the layout gate.
         let cleared = model
             .layout_inputs
             .get_mut(&h)
@@ -107,12 +109,12 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua, m: &Table) -> mlua::Result<()> {
                 Anchor::new(Point::BottomRight, rel_id, Point::BottomRight, 0.0, 0.0),
             ];
             let input = model.layout_inputs.entry(h).or_default();
-            // The reference clears and sets both (`0x767db0`); only a bit-identical pair skips.
+            // The reference clears, sets both and invalidates (`0x767db0`); a bit-identical pair
+            // moves no input.
             let pair = Anchors::from(pair);
-            if !input.anchors.bits_eq(&pair) {
-                input.anchors = pair;
-                model.touch_layout_frame(h);
-            }
+            let changed = !input.anchors.bits_eq(&pair);
+            input.anchors = pair;
+            model.invalidate_frame(h, changed);
             Ok(())
         },
     )?;
@@ -127,10 +129,9 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua, m: &Table) -> mlua::Result<()> {
             let input = model.layout_inputs.entry(h).or_default();
             let changed = input.width.to_bits() != w.to_bits();
             input.width = w;
-            if changed {
-                // A size write moves no edge and no roster membership.
-                model.touch_layout_frame(h);
-            }
+            // A size write moves no edge and no roster membership. It invalidates whether or not
+            // the width moved (`0x7683d0`).
+            model.invalidate_frame(h, changed);
             model.note_authored_size(h);
             Ok(())
         },
@@ -146,9 +147,7 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua, m: &Table) -> mlua::Result<()> {
             let input = model.layout_inputs.entry(h).or_default();
             let changed = input.height.to_bits() != ht.to_bits();
             input.height = ht;
-            if changed {
-                model.touch_layout_frame(h);
-            }
+            model.invalidate_frame(h, changed);
             model.note_authored_size(h);
             Ok(())
         },
@@ -226,7 +225,7 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua, m: &Table) -> mlua::Result<()> {
 /// next layout drain (`UiScript::resolve`), not inside the getter as the reference's forced
 /// `ApplyRect 0x76b580` does, because running Lua handlers inside a binding risks a borrow panic
 /// or unbounded recursion.
-fn settle(lua: &Lua) {
+pub(in crate::script) fn settle(lua: &Lua) {
     let mut model = lua.app_data_mut::<Model>().expect("model");
     crate::script::UiScript::resolve_layout(&mut model);
 }
@@ -275,11 +274,12 @@ fn set_point(lua: &Lua, this: &Table, args: &MultiValue) -> mlua::Result<()> {
 
     let units = model.layout_units();
     let input = model.layout_inputs.entry(h).or_default();
+    // An unchanged anchor stores nothing and queues no resolve (`0x767cde` → `0x767d5e`).
     if input
         .anchors
         .set(Anchor::new(point, rel_to_id, rel_point, x, y), units)
     {
-        model.touch_layout_frame(h);
+        model.invalidate_frame(h, true);
     }
     Ok(())
 }
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/region.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/region.rs
index a2807880..d1c22ee1 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/region.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/region.rs
@@ -678,6 +678,7 @@ pub(super) fn region_type_name(model: &Model, rh: RegionHandle) -> &'static str
 pub(crate) fn free_region(model: &mut Model, rh: RegionHandle) {
     model.region_data.remove(&rh);
     model.region_resolved.remove(&rh);
+    model.region_kept.remove(&rh);
     let name = model.arena.region(rh).and_then(|r| r.name.clone());
     if let Some(id) = model.region_to_id.remove(&rh) {
         model.id_to_region.remove(&id);
@@ -688,8 +689,9 @@ pub(crate) fn free_region(model: &mut Model, rh: RegionHandle) {
                 model.region_by_name.remove(&name);
             }
         }
-        // Its node leaves the cached graph with its edges at the next resolve, and whatever
-        // anchored to it re-resolves without it.
+        // Its node leaves the cached graph with its edges at the next resolve. What anchored to
+        // it is not invalidated (`0x768e20` unhooks each with `0x767e70`, flag 0), so it keeps
+        // its state.
         model.name_layout_node(id);
     }
     model.arena.destroy_region(rh);
@@ -810,14 +812,14 @@ pub(super) fn region_set_point(lua: &Lua, this: &Table, args: &MultiValue) -> ml
     let rel_to_id = resolve_rel_target(&model, &p.target, &who, "SetPoint", me, owner)?;
     let (point, rel_point, x, y) = (p.point, p.rel_point, p.x, p.y);
 
-    // The frame's store and its unchanged-anchor test (`0x767c70`).
+    // The frame's store and its unchanged-anchor test (`0x767c70`), which queues no resolve.
     let units = model.layout_units();
     let data = model.region_data.entry(rh).or_default();
     if data
         .anchors
         .set(Anchor::new(point, rel_to_id, rel_point, x, y), units)
     {
-        model.touch_layout_region(rh);
+        model.invalidate_region(rh, true);
     }
     Ok(())
 }
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/region/layout.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/region/layout.rs
index afbb3d6b..e77d8eb6 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/region/layout.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/region/layout.rs
@@ -15,15 +15,16 @@ use super::{
     size_bits_eq,
 };
 
-/// Install the layout methods into `m`.
-/// `ClearAllPoints` on a region (`0x767ed0`): the region leaves the cached graph with its edges.
+/// `ClearAllPoints` on a region (`0x767ed0` → `0x767620`): the region leaves the cached graph with
+/// its edges, and keeps its rect, as the clear queues no resolve, until its own next invalidate.
 pub(in crate::script) fn clear_points(model: &mut Model, rh: crate::widget::RegionHandle) {
-    // Mutates only on a real change; an unanchored region leaves the graph.
+    // Mutates only on a real change.
     if model.region_data.entry(rh).or_default().anchors.clear() {
         model.touch_layout_region(rh);
     }
 }
 
+/// Install the layout methods into `m`.
 pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua, m: &Table) -> mlua::Result<()> {
     // The explicit size fills the axes the anchors do not pin, so SetAllPoints's two corners
     // leave it unread.
@@ -39,11 +40,12 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua, m: &Table) -> mlua::Result<()> {
             let new = Some((w, d.size.map_or(0.0, |s| s.1)));
             let changed = !size_bits_eq(d.size, new);
             d.size = new;
+            // No edge or roster change; the width, as wrap width, keys a FontString's measure. It
+            // invalidates whether or not the size moved (`0x7683d0`, `0x7683f0`).
             if changed {
-                // No edge or roster change; the width, as wrap width, keys a FontString's measure.
-                model.touch_layout_region(rh);
                 model.touch_measure(rh);
             }
+            model.invalidate_region(rh, changed);
             Ok(())
         },
     )?;
@@ -60,11 +62,12 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua, m: &Table) -> mlua::Result<()> {
             let new = Some((d.size.map_or(0.0, |s| s.0), h));
             let changed = !size_bits_eq(d.size, new);
             d.size = new;
+            // No edge or roster change; the width, as wrap width, keys a FontString's measure. It
+            // invalidates whether or not the size moved (`0x7683d0`, `0x7683f0`).
             if changed {
-                // No edge or roster change; the width, as wrap width, keys a FontString's measure.
-                model.touch_layout_region(rh);
                 model.touch_measure(rh);
             }
+            model.invalidate_region(rh, changed);
             Ok(())
         },
     )?;
@@ -80,7 +83,8 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua, m: &Table) -> mlua::Result<()> {
     })?;
 
     // GetLeft/GetRight/GetTop/GetBottom: the resolved edges in the owner's units (y up, screen
-    // over the owner's effective scale, which a region shares); nil for a region never resolved.
+    // over the owner's effective scale, which a region shares); nil while the valid bit is clear.
+    // The frame's getters (`0x7a1980`..), so they resolve first, as a frame's do.
     for (name, pick) in [
         ("GetLeft", 0u8),
         ("GetRight", 1u8),
@@ -89,6 +93,7 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua, m: &Table) -> mlua::Result<()> {
     ] {
         set_shared(lua, m, Side::Region, name, move |lua, this: Table| {
             let rh = region_handle_of(lua, &this)?;
+            crate::script::object::settle(lua);
             let model = lua.app_data_ref::<Model>().expect("model");
             let inv = 1.0 / owner_scale(&model, rh);
             Ok(model.region_resolved.get(&rh).map(|r| {
@@ -144,12 +149,12 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua, m: &Table) -> mlua::Result<()> {
                 Anchor::new(Point::BottomRight, rel_id, Point::BottomRight, 0.0, 0.0),
             ];
             let data = model.region_data.entry(rh).or_default();
-            // The reference clears and sets both (`0x767db0`); only a bit-identical pair skips.
+            // The reference clears, sets both and invalidates (`0x767db0`); a bit-identical pair
+            // moves no input.
             let pair = Anchors::from(pair);
-            if !data.anchors.bits_eq(&pair) {
-                data.anchors = pair;
-                model.touch_layout_region(rh);
-            }
+            let changed = !data.anchors.bits_eq(&pair);
+            data.anchors = pair;
+            model.invalidate_region(rh, changed);
             Ok(())
         },
     )?;
@@ -169,9 +174,10 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua, m: &Table) -> mlua::Result<()> {
     })?;
 
     // GetCenter: the resolved rect's midpoint in the owner's units, as the edge readers answer, or
-    // two nils before the first resolve.
+    // two nils while the valid bit is clear; it resolves first, as the edge readers do.
     set_shared(lua, m, Side::Region, "GetCenter", |lua, this: Table| {
         let rh = region_handle_of(lua, &this)?;
+        crate::script::object::settle(lua);
         let model = lua.app_data_ref::<Model>().expect("model");
         let inv = 1.0 / owner_scale(&model, rh);
         Ok(match model.region_resolved.get(&rh) {
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/region/text.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/region/text.rs
index fda339b1..a4702874 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/region/text.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/region/text.rs
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua, m: &Table) -> mlua::Result<()> {
             let mut model = lua.app_data_mut::<Model>().expect("model");
             let data = model.region_data.entry(rh).or_default();
             let was_shown = data.text.as_deref().is_some_and(|t| !t.is_empty());
+            let same = data.text == text;
             data.text = text;
             // Fresh text draws whole: an armed write-on gradient belongs to the old string.
             data.alpha_gradient = None;
@@ -26,6 +27,11 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua, m: &Table) -> mlua::Result<()> {
             // or fills, which drops or takes up the measure the sweep reads.
             model.touch_measure(rh);
             model.touch_layout_text(rh, was_shown);
+            // A new string clears the valid bit and invalidates (`0x771ea4`); the same one returns
+            // first (`0x771df1`).
+            if !same {
+                model.clear_region_valid(rh);
+            }
             Ok(())
         })?,
     )?;
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/backdrop.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/backdrop.rs
index 08a398a3..49defb30 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/backdrop.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/backdrop.rs
@@ -792,10 +792,12 @@ fn the_bg_bottomright_anchor_answers_the_top_inset() {
     .unwrap();
 }
 
-/// A teardown kills the pieces' layout nodes; whatever anchored to one re-resolves against the
-/// missing rect in the dirty-scope solve, exactly as a from-scratch solve of the same model does.
+/// A teardown kills the pieces' layout nodes. What anchored to one is not invalidated: the
+/// piece's teardown (`0x767720` → `0x768e20`) unhooks it with no resolve queued (`0x767e70` with
+/// a zero flag), so it keeps its rect and draws in place, in the dirty-scope solve exactly as in
+/// a from-scratch solve of the same model.
 #[test]
-fn a_teardown_re_resolves_what_anchored_to_a_piece() {
+fn a_teardown_leaves_what_anchored_to_a_piece_in_place() {
     let mut s = script();
     s.set_screen_size(800.0, 600.0);
     s.run(
@@ -840,5 +842,8 @@ fn a_teardown_re_resolves_what_anchored_to_a_piece() {
         incremental == full,
         "the dirty-scope solve matches a full one"
     );
-    assert!(!drawn(&s), "its anchor target is gone");
+    assert!(
+        drawn(&s),
+        "its anchor target is gone, and nothing re-resolved it"
+    );
 }
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/clear_points.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/clear_points.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7477ddcb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/clear_points.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,275 @@
+//! `ClearAllPoints` (`0x7a2b70` → `0x767620`) only unhooks each anchor from its target
+//! (`0x767fa0`) and frees it: no resolve is queued (`0x7680e0`) and no flag is written, so the
+//! cached rect and its valid bit stand until the object's own next invalidate. That resolve
+//! (`0x768d20`) then fails at `0x768d55`: the valid bit clears and the rect-changed slot is
+//! skipped, so nothing anchored to it re-resolves. A Texture keeps the quad its last good resolve
+//! wrote (`0x770670` → `0x7705b0`), as its emit checks only its texture (`0x7706e0`); a FontString's
+//! emit needs the valid bit (`0x7730b7`), and so do the getters (`GetRect 0x768320`).
+
+use super::common::script;
+use crate::layout::Rect;
+use crate::script::{UiScript, ZTarget};
+
+/// `Host` at `(100, 100)`–`(300, 200)` with `Child`, a frame pinned to its top right, and `Tex`, a
+/// solid texture on its bottom left, 20 square.
+fn host() -> UiScript {
+    let mut s = script();
+    s.set_screen_size(1024.0, 768.0);
+    s.run(
+        r#"
+        Host = CreateFrame("Frame", "Host")
+        Host:SetPoint("BOTTOMLEFT", nil, "BOTTOMLEFT", 100, 100)
+        Host:SetWidth(200); Host:SetHeight(100)
+        Child = CreateFrame("Frame", "Child")
+        Child:SetPoint("BOTTOMLEFT", Host, "TOPRIGHT", 0, 0)
+        Child:SetWidth(10); Child:SetHeight(10)
+        Tex = Host:CreateTexture("Tex", "ARTWORK")
+        Tex:SetTexture(1, 1, 1)
+        Tex:SetPoint("BOTTOMLEFT", Host, "BOTTOMLEFT", 10, 10)
+        Tex:SetWidth(20); Tex:SetHeight(20)
+    "#,
+    )
+    .unwrap();
+    s.resolve();
+    s
+}
+
+fn left(s: &mut UiScript, name: &str) -> Option<f64> {
+    s.eval::<Option<f64>>(&format!("return {name}:GetLeft()"))
+        .unwrap()
+}
+
+/// The rect the render list draws region `name` at, if it draws.
+fn drawn(s: &UiScript, name: &str) -> Option<Rect> {
+    let rh = {
+        let m = s.model_ref();
+        let id = *m.region_by_name.get(name).expect("a named region");
+        *m.id_to_region.get(&id).expect("a live region")
+    };
+    s.extract()
+        .into_iter()
+        .find(|q| q.target == ZTarget::Region(rh))
+        .and_then(|q| q.rect)
+}
+
+/// The getter answers the old edge, before and after the next resolve: the clear queued nothing.
+#[test]
+fn a_cleared_frame_answers_its_old_left() {
+    let mut s = host();
+    s.run("Host:ClearAllPoints()").unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(left(&mut s, "Host"), Some(100.0), "the cached rect stands");
+    s.resolve();
+    assert_eq!(left(&mut s, "Host"), Some(100.0), "and outlasts a resolve");
+    assert_eq!(s.eval::<i64>("return Host:GetNumPoints()").unwrap(), 0);
+    assert!(s.errors().is_empty(), "{:?}", s.errors());
+}
+
+/// A cleared texture not re-anchored keeps drawing in place and keeps its edges.
+#[test]
+fn a_cleared_texture_still_draws_and_keeps_its_left() {
+    let mut s = host();
+    let before = drawn(&s, "Tex").expect("drawn before the clear");
+    s.run("Tex:ClearAllPoints()").unwrap();
+    s.resolve();
+    assert_eq!(drawn(&s, "Tex"), Some(before), "the same quad");
+    assert_eq!(left(&mut s, "Tex"), Some(110.0));
+    assert!(s.errors().is_empty(), "{:?}", s.errors());
+}
+
+/// What anchors to a cleared frame keeps its rect, and the cleared frame no longer follows the
+/// frame it was anchored to: `0x767fa0` cut that edge.
+#[test]
+fn a_child_of_a_cleared_frame_keeps_its_rect() {
+    let mut s = host();
+    s.run(
+        r#"
+        Outer = CreateFrame("Frame", "Outer")
+        Outer:SetPoint("BOTTOMLEFT", nil, "BOTTOMLEFT", 0, 0)
+        Outer:SetWidth(50); Outer:SetHeight(50)
+        Host:SetPoint("BOTTOMLEFT", Outer, "TOPRIGHT", 50, 50)
+    "#,
+    )
+    .unwrap();
+    s.resolve();
+    assert_eq!(left(&mut s, "Host"), Some(100.0));
+    s.run("Host:ClearAllPoints()").unwrap();
+    s.resolve();
+    assert_eq!(left(&mut s, "Child"), Some(300.0), "the child stands");
+    assert_eq!(left(&mut s, "Tex"), Some(110.0), "and so does the region");
+    s.run(r#"Outer:SetPoint("BOTTOMLEFT", nil, "BOTTOMLEFT", 40, 0)"#)
+        .unwrap();
+    s.resolve();
+    assert_eq!(left(&mut s, "Outer"), Some(40.0));
+    assert_eq!(left(&mut s, "Host"), Some(100.0), "the old target's move");
+    assert_eq!(left(&mut s, "Child"), Some(300.0));
+    assert!(s.errors().is_empty(), "{:?}", s.errors());
+}
+
+/// The cleared frame's own next invalidate resolves it, and the resolve fails: its getters
+/// answer nil, while everything anchored to it keeps its rect, since a failed resolve skips the
+/// rect-changed slot (`0x768e0e`).
+#[test]
+fn a_cleared_frame_fails_on_its_own_invalidate_and_its_dependents_stand() {
+    let mut s = host();
+    let tex = drawn(&s, "Tex").expect("drawn");
+    s.run("Host:ClearAllPoints(); Host:SetWidth(100)").unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(left(&mut s, "Host"), None, "the failed resolve");
+    s.resolve();
+    assert_eq!(left(&mut s, "Host"), None);
+    assert_eq!(left(&mut s, "Child"), Some(300.0), "the child stands");
+    assert_eq!(left(&mut s, "Tex"), Some(110.0), "the region stands");
+    assert_eq!(drawn(&s, "Tex"), Some(tex), "and draws");
+    // A re-anchor resolves it again, and its rect change reaches what anchors to it.
+    s.run(r#"Host:SetPoint("BOTTOMLEFT", nil, "BOTTOMLEFT", 0, 0)"#)
+        .unwrap();
+    s.resolve();
+    assert_eq!(left(&mut s, "Host"), Some(0.0));
+    assert_eq!(left(&mut s, "Child"), Some(100.0), "the child follows");
+    assert_eq!(left(&mut s, "Tex"), Some(10.0));
+    assert!(s.errors().is_empty(), "{:?}", s.errors());
+}
+
+/// `SetWidth` invalidates whether or not the width moved (`0x7a1feb` → `0x7683d0` → `0x7680e0`).
+#[test]
+fn a_same_width_still_invalidates_a_cleared_frame() {
+    let mut s = host();
+    s.run("Host:ClearAllPoints()").unwrap();
+    s.resolve();
+    assert_eq!(left(&mut s, "Host"), Some(100.0));
+    s.run("Host:SetWidth(200)").unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(left(&mut s, "Host"), None);
+    assert!(s.errors().is_empty(), "{:?}", s.errors());
+}
+
+/// A clear behind an invalidate the resolve has not taken yet leaves that resolve to fail: the
+/// frame is still queued (`0x7680e0`), and the clear does not dequeue it.
+#[test]
+fn a_clear_behind_a_queued_resolve_fails_it() {
+    let mut s = host();
+    s.run(
+        r#"
+        Host:SetPoint("BOTTOMLEFT", nil, "BOTTOMLEFT", 120, 100)
+        Host:ClearAllPoints()
+    "#,
+    )
+    .unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(left(&mut s, "Host"), None);
+    assert_eq!(left(&mut s, "Child"), Some(300.0), "nothing moved under it");
+    assert!(s.errors().is_empty(), "{:?}", s.errors());
+}
+
+/// A region's own invalidate after a clear fails it at once: its getter resolves first, as a
+/// frame's does (`0x7a1980` serves both).
+#[test]
+fn a_cleared_texture_fails_on_its_own_invalidate() {
+    let mut s = host();
+    let tex = drawn(&s, "Tex").expect("drawn");
+    s.run("Tex:ClearAllPoints(); Tex:SetWidth(30)").unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(left(&mut s, "Tex"), None, "the getter resolves");
+    s.resolve();
+    assert_eq!(left(&mut s, "Tex"), None);
+    assert_eq!(drawn(&s, "Tex"), Some(tex), "the last good quad");
+    assert!(s.errors().is_empty(), "{:?}", s.errors());
+}
+
+/// A texture re-anchored onto a frame that never resolved fails, and keeps drawing the quad its
+/// last good resolve wrote; a FontString in the same spot stops drawing. Both getters answer nil.
+#[test]
+fn a_failed_texture_keeps_its_quad_and_a_failed_fontstring_does_not() {
+    let mut s = host();
+    s.run(
+        r#"
+        Label = Host:CreateFontString("Label", "ARTWORK")
+        Label:SetText("x")
+        Label:SetPoint("BOTTOMLEFT", Host, "BOTTOMLEFT", 10, 10)
+        Label:SetWidth(20); Label:SetHeight(20)
+    "#,
+    )
+    .unwrap();
+    s.resolve();
+    let tex = drawn(&s, "Tex").expect("the texture draws");
+    assert!(drawn(&s, "Label").is_some(), "the label draws");
+    s.run(
+        r#"
+        Ghost = CreateFrame("Frame", "Ghost")
+        Tex:SetPoint("BOTTOMLEFT", Ghost, "BOTTOMLEFT", 0, 0)
+        Label:SetPoint("BOTTOMLEFT", Ghost, "BOTTOMLEFT", 0, 0)
+    "#,
+    )
+    .unwrap();
+    s.resolve();
+    assert_eq!(left(&mut s, "Tex"), None);
+    assert_eq!(left(&mut s, "Label"), None);
+    assert_eq!(drawn(&s, "Tex"), Some(tex), "the texture's last good quad");
+    assert_eq!(drawn(&s, "Label"), None, "the label stops");
+    // Anchored again where it resolves, it draws there.
+    s.run(r#"Tex:SetPoint("BOTTOMLEFT", Host, "BOTTOMLEFT", 30, 30)"#)
+        .unwrap();
+    s.resolve();
+    assert_eq!(left(&mut s, "Tex"), Some(130.0));
+    assert_eq!(drawn(&s, "Tex").map(|r| r.left), Some(130.0));
+    assert!(s.errors().is_empty(), "{:?}", s.errors());
+}
+
+/// `T` spans from `FS`'s top left to the bottom right of `X`; `X` is then cleared and invalidated,
+/// so it fails, and `T`, not reached, keeps its rect. `FS` is sized, so its text never moves it,
+/// and `T`'s art has no extent here, so it needs both anchors.
+fn stale_reader_of_a_label() -> UiScript {
+    let mut s = host();
+    s.run(
+        r#"
+        FS = Host:CreateFontString("FS", "ARTWORK")
+        FS:SetText("AAAA")
+        FS:SetPoint("BOTTOMLEFT", Host, "BOTTOMLEFT", 10, 10)
+        FS:SetWidth(40); FS:SetHeight(20)
+        X = CreateFrame("Frame", "X")
+        X:SetPoint("BOTTOMLEFT", nil, "BOTTOMLEFT", 400, 300)
+        X:SetWidth(20); X:SetHeight(20)
+        T = Host:CreateTexture("T", "ARTWORK")
+        T:SetTexture("Interface\Buttons\WHITE8X8")
+        T:SetPoint("TOPLEFT", FS, "TOPLEFT", 0, 0)
+        T:SetPoint("BOTTOMRIGHT", X, "BOTTOMRIGHT", 0, 0)
+    "#,
+    )
+    .unwrap();
+    s.resolve();
+    assert_eq!(left(&mut s, "T"), Some(110.0));
+    s.run("X:ClearAllPoints(); X:SetWidth(10)").unwrap();
+    s.resolve();
+    assert_eq!(left(&mut s, "X"), None);
+    assert_eq!(left(&mut s, "T"), Some(110.0), "not reached");
+    s
+}
+
+/// A FontString's new string, font or spacing clears its valid bit before it invalidates
+/// (`0x771ea4`, `0x7715e0`, `0x771666`), so its next resolve stores whole and its rect-changed
+/// slot reaches `T`, which fails on `X` and keeps only its quad. The same value reaches nothing.
+#[test]
+fn a_labels_new_text_font_or_spacing_reaches_what_anchors_to_it() {
+    let mut wrong = Vec::new();
+    for (write, reaches) in [
+        (r#"FS:SetText("BBBB")"#, true),
+        (r#"FS:SetText("AAAA")"#, false),
+        (r#"FS:SetFont("Fonts\\ARIALN.TTF", 14)"#, true),
+        ("FS:SetSpacing(2)", true),
+        ("FS:SetSpacing(0)", false),
+    ] {
+        let mut s = stale_reader_of_a_label();
+        let quad = drawn(&s, "T").expect("drawn");
+        s.run(write).unwrap();
+        s.resolve();
+        let want = if reaches { None } else { Some(110.0) };
+        let got = left(&mut s, "T");
+        if got != want {
+            wrong.push(format!("{write}: T:GetLeft() {got:?}, want {want:?}"));
+        }
+        assert_eq!(
+            left(&mut s, "FS"),
+            Some(110.0),
+            "{write}: the label resolves"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(drawn(&s, "T"), Some(quad), "{write}: the quad stays");
+        assert!(s.errors().is_empty(), "{write}: {:?}", s.errors());
+    }
+    assert!(wrong.is_empty(), "{wrong:#?}");
+}
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/mod.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/mod.rs
index 47ff00e6..d88b02ad 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/mod.rs
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ mod button;
 mod capture;
 mod channel;
 mod chat_bubble;
+mod clear_points;
 mod common;
 mod cooldown;
 mod create_frame_template;
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tooltip/mod.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tooltip/mod.rs
index e7611348..f4e95d75 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tooltip/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tooltip/mod.rs
@@ -775,11 +775,19 @@ pub(super) fn layout_tooltips(model: &mut Model) {
         }
         let input = model.layout_inputs.entry(h).or_default();
         // `pad_w` is `SetPadding`'s extra width (ItemRefTooltip's room for its close button).
-        input.width = maxw + 2.0 * TOOLTIP_PAD + pad_w;
-        input.height = totalh + 2.0 * TOOLTIP_PAD;
+        let (w, ht) = (maxw + 2.0 * TOOLTIP_PAD + pad_w, totalh + 2.0 * TOOLTIP_PAD);
+        let moved = input.width.to_bits() != w.to_bits() || input.height.to_bits() != ht.to_bits();
+        input.width = w;
+        input.height = ht;
         // Inside the resolve, so a note and not a touch; the incremental pass still has to hear
-        // that these inputs changed.
+        // that these inputs changed. The size goes through `SetWidth`/`SetHeight` (`0x530a2e`,
+        // `0x530a39`), which invalidate the tooltip.
         model.note_layout_frame_write(h);
+        if moved {
+            if let Some(&id) = model.frame_to_id.get(&h) {
+                model.layout_pending.push(id);
+            }
+        }
         // Right-flush each shown right cell: one `SetPoint(RIGHT, leftCell, LEFT, width, 0)`
         // (`0x530910`..`0x53094f`), which leaves any other point the cell holds alone.
         let units = model.layout_units();