How to get Icons in QTableWidgetItem to take up the whole item space

[Slewman]

Posted something about this earlier... but it kinda got lost in the posts... so im posing the question again with a better title haha.

i have written a custom item delegate... but it doesnt seem to work

class MyItemDelegate: public QItemDelegate
{
public:
   MyItemDelegate(QObject* pParent = 0) : QItemDelegate(pParent)
   {
   }
   void MyItemDelegate::paint(QPainter* painter, const QStyleOptionViewItem& option, const QModelIndex& index) const
   {
      QIcon icon = qvariant_cast<QIcon>(index.data(Qt::DecorationRole));
      drawBackground(painter, option, index);
      drawDecoration(painter, option, option.rect, icon.pixmap(option.rect.size()));
      drawFocus(painter, option, option.rect);
   }
};

class MyItemDelegate: public QItemDelegate
{
public:
   MyItemDelegate(QObject* pParent = 0) : QItemDelegate(pParent)
   {
   }
   void MyItemDelegate::paint(QPainter* painter, const QStyleOptionViewItem& option, const QModelIndex& index) const
   {
      QIcon icon = qvariant_cast<QIcon>(index.data(Qt::DecorationRole));
      drawBackground(painter, option, index);
      drawDecoration(painter, option, option.rect, icon.pixmap(option.rect.size()));
      drawFocus(painter, option, option.rect);
   }
};

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anyone have any ideas? im real desperate to get this thing working, ive been working on it for days now and i dont know where else to look