Textbox can scale as a normal object.

src/mixins/textbox_behavior.mixin.js

@@ -10,8 +10,9 @@
                                                      lockScalingX, lockScalingY, by, lockScalingFlip, _dim) {
 
     var t = transform.target;
-    if (t instanceof fabric.Textbox) {
-      var w = t.width * ((localMouse.x / transform.scaleX) / (t.width + t.strokeWidth));
+    if (by === 'x' && t instanceof fabric.Textbox) {
+      var tw = t._getTransformedDimensions().x;
+      var w = t.width * (localMouse.x / tw);
       if (w >= t.getMinWidth()) {
         t.set('width', w);
         return true;
@@ -23,23 +24,6 @@
     }
   };
 
-  /**
-   * Sets controls of this group to the Textbox's special configuration if
-   * one is present in the group. Deletes _controlsVisibility otherwise, so that
-   * it gets initialized to default value at runtime.
-   */
-  fabric.Group.prototype._refreshControlsVisibility = function() {
-    if (typeof fabric.Textbox === 'undefined') {
-      return;
-    }
-    for (var i = this._objects.length; i--;) {
-      if (this._objects[i] instanceof fabric.Textbox) {
-        this.setControlsVisibility(fabric.Textbox.getTextboxControlVisibility());
-        return;
-      }
-    }
-  };
-
   fabric.util.object.extend(fabric.Textbox.prototype, /** @lends fabric.IText.prototype */ {
     /**
      * @private

src/shapes/textbox.class.js

@@ -46,11 +46,6 @@
      */
     __cachedLines: null,
 
-    /**
-     * Override standard Object class values
-     */
-    lockScalingY: true,
-
     /**
      * Override standard Object class values
      */
@@ -73,7 +68,6 @@
     initialize: function(text, options) {
 
       this.callSuper('initialize', text, options);
-      this.setControlsVisibility(fabric.Textbox.getTextboxControlVisibility());
       this.ctx = this.objectCaching ? this._cacheContext : fabric.util.createCanvasElement().getContext('2d');
       // add width to this list of props that effect line wrapping.
       this._dimensionAffectingProps.push('width');
@@ -354,25 +348,6 @@
       return newText;
     },
 
-    /**
-     * When part of a group, we don't want the Textbox's scale to increase if
-     * the group's increases. That's why we reduce the scale of the Textbox by
-     * the amount that the group's increases. This is to maintain the effective
-     * scale of the Textbox at 1, so that font-size values make sense. Otherwise
-     * the same font-size value would result in different actual size depending
-     * on the value of the scale.
-     * @param {String} key
-     * @param {*} value
-     */
-    setOnGroup: function(key, value) {
-      if (key === 'scaleX') {
-        this.set('scaleX', Math.abs(1 / value));
-        this.set('width', (this.get('width') * value) /
-          (typeof this.__oldScaleX === 'undefined' ? 1 : this.__oldScaleX));
-        this.__oldScaleX = value;
-      }
-    },
-
     getMinWidth: function() {
       return Math.max(this.minWidth, this.dynamicMinWidth);
     },
@@ -398,23 +373,4 @@
   fabric.Textbox.fromObject = function(object, callback) {
     return fabric.Object._fromObject('Textbox', object, callback, 'text');
   };
-
-  /**
-   * Returns the default controls visibility required for Textboxes.
-   * @returns {Object}
-   */
-  fabric.Textbox.getTextboxControlVisibility = function() {
-    return {
-      tl: false,
-      tr: false,
-      br: false,
-      bl: false,
-      ml: true,
-      mt: false,
-      mr: true,
-      mb: false,
-      mtr: true
-    };
-  };
-
 })(typeof exports !== 'undefined' ? exports : this);