Updating the text directly in the controller interferes onChanged

[LuDColl]

I updated the text directly in the empty controller and when I edited it in onChanged it returned the empty text instead of the one I inserted:

controller.text; // show ''
controller.text = mask.maskText('new text');
controller.text; // show 'new text'

TextField(
  controller: controller,
  inputFormatters: [mask],
  onChanged: (text) {
    text; // show ''
    controller.text; // show ''
  }
)

I managed to make it work only when I forced the Mask's formatEditUpdate:

controller.text; // show ''
controller.text = mask.maskText('new text');
controller.text; // show 'new text'

final value = controller.value;
mask.formatEditUpdate(value, value);

TextField(
  controller: controller,
  inputFormatters: [mask],
  onChanged: (text) {
    text; // show 'new text'
    controller.text; // show 'new text'
  }
)

Could you fix it, so I don't have to force formatEditUpdate?

[siqwin]

Instead of using the maskText method, use the initialText parameter of the MaskTextInputFormatter constructor.
The maskText method can be used if you need to format text in isolation from text fields.