Zooming function on a QWidget

Try to reimplement your paintEvent , and apply scale to QPainter before drawing.

class YourClass:public QWidget
{
...
  protected:
     void paintEvent ( QPaintEvent * event );
     void wheelEvent ( QWheelEvent * event );
  private:
     qreal scale;
};

void YourClass::paintEvent ( QPaintEvent * event )
{
    QPainter p;
    p.scale(scale,scale);
// paint here
}
void YourClass::wheelEvent ( QWheelEvent * event )
{
    scale+=(event->delta()/120); //or use any other step for zooming 
}