SpriteKit - Creating a timer

Question

How can I create a timer that fires every two seconds that will increment the score by one on a HUD I have on my screen? This is the code I have for the HUD:

Answer 1

The following code creates a new thread and waits 2 seconds before doing something on the main thread:

BOOL continueIncrementingScore = YES;

dispatch_async(dispatch_queue_create("timer", NULL);, ^{
    while(continueIncrementingScore) {
        [NSThread sleepForTimeInterval:2];
        dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
            // this is performed on the main thread - increment score here

        });
    }
});

Whenever you want to stop it - just set continueIncrementingScore to NO