I am working on project for desktop application. I am using Qt controls with visual c++. I am loading an html file in the QWebView as,
m_pWebView->load(QUrl(\
If it is a Windows application then you could access the local filesystem by using ActiveX objects. You might have a look at this link Reading a txt file from Javascript
Note that activeX usage is possible only when using IE as browser/engine; I used to need it a while ago for developing an HTML application (.hta files).