so i am trying to get an icon to fill up the space of a QTableWidgetItem. so i subclassed the ItemDelegate and set it to my QTableWidget, but still, the icons wont fill out the item in the table.

here is my code... below is what i have at the top of my *.cpp file

Qt Code: 
  1. class MyItemDelegate: public QItemDelegate
  2. {
  3. public:
  4.    MyItemDelegate(QObject* pParent = 0) : QItemDelegate(pParent)
  5.    {
  6.       std::cout<<"INSIDE DELEGATE PAINT~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"<<std::endl;
  7.    }
  8.    void MyItemDelegate::paint(QPainter* painter, const QStyleOptionViewItem& option, const QModelIndex& index) const
  9.    {
  10.       QIcon icon = qvariant_cast<QIcon>(index.data(Qt::DecorationRole));
  11.       drawBackground(painter, option, index);
  12.       drawDecoration(painter, option, option.rect, icon.pixmap(option.rect.size()));
  13.       drawFocus(painter, option, option.rect);
  14.       std::cout<<"INSIDE DELEGATE PAINT"<<std::endl;
  15.    }
  16. };
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and here is where i am setting the delegate to my table

Qt Code: 
  1. mThumbArea->setItemDelegate(new MyItemDelegate(mThumbArea));
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here is where i add the icon to the table

Qt Code: 
  1. QTableWidgetItem *newItemImage = new QTableWidgetItem(QIcon(filename),"");
  2.    mThumbArea->setItem(0,0,newItemImage);
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filename is valid, and the item is successfully added to the table, its just that the icon is much too small... what is happening!!!