Get all file names in a folder, set each as text variable

First off, I do not know if this is possible.
For an app I'm writing, I need it to get a list of all the file names inside of a folder, then set a text variable for each of the file names. The app will then display a list of those items, which I know what to do from there.
If anyone knows how I would be able to do this, or alternatives, I would be extremely grateful.
Thanks in advance!

just use any colon separated path (i.e., the desktop would be {color:blue}HD:Users:yourname:Desktop:{colors}) basically, path specifiers come in a number of types:
# text designations - HD:Users:yourname:Desktop (just a normal text line)
# posix designations - /Users/yourname/Desktop (how unix expects paths to be written)
# alias designations - alias "HD:Users:yourname:Desktop" (a pointer to an actual, existing file system element
# file system referents - file "HD:Users:yourname:Desktop:somefile", folder "HD:Users:yourname:Desktop", etc -
# file system objects - Folder "Desktop" of folder "yourname" of folder "Users" of disk "HD"
each has its advantages and disadvantages, and you can coerce between them (though not completely - you need to convert #5 to text before you can convert it to #3, for instance.

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