Extending TCustomEditControls (TMemo, TRichEdit) with a ViewOnly property

in VCL Ideas :: Descedants of the TCustomEdit type, like TEdit, TMemo and TRichEdit, expose two properties you can use to make the editor not-editable: ReadOnly and Enabled. How about a ViewOnly property that would be a mix or Enabled and ReadOnly where the control with ViewOnly set to true will not be grayed, will be read only but a user will not be able to set the input focus to the control?

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