Is it possible to have the read/write of a property to have different visibility?

Question

As the question says... is it possible to declare the read/write of a property at different level of visibility. If so, what would be the syntax?

Something along the line of :

  protected
    property MyProp : Integer write FMyProp;
  public
    property MyProp : Integer read FMyProp;
  end;

Not that it would be a major language feature, it's easily replaced by

protected
  procedure SetMyProp(Value : Integer);
public
  property MyProp : Integer read FMyProp;
end;

I'm just curious if such a possibility exists.

Answer 1

No, you have to split it into two separate properties (with different names), although they can refer to the same private field.

Answer 2

No, this isn't possible. I'm not sure why you would need to do that, however.

The only reason I can see is to make it read-only while still allowing it to be published and seen in the Object Inspector, and you can already do this:

private
  procedure SetMyProp(Value: String);
published
  MyProp: string read FMyProp write SetMyProp;

...
procedure TMyComponent.SetMyProp(Value: String);
begin
  //
end;