Experimenting with building a cartesian-quadrant-like array of textboxes with a crosshair of lines separating them.

quadrant-textboxes.py

import wx


class MyPanel(wx.Panel):
    def __init__(self, parent, _id):
        wx.Panel.__init__(self, parent, _id)
        self.SetBackgroundColour("white")
        default_font = wx.Font(9, wx.FONTFAMILY_DEFAULT, wx.FONTSTYLE_NORMAL, wx.FONTWEIGHT_NORMAL)
        self.SetFont(default_font)

        self.nw_label = wx.StaticText(self, -1, "N of W", pos=(100, 100),
                                      size=wx.DefaultSize)
        self.tb_nw = wx.TextCtrl(self, -1, value="", pos=(110, 120),
                                 size=(30, -1))
        self.ne_label = wx.StaticText(self, -1, "N of E", pos=(160, 100),
                                      size=wx.DefaultSize)
        self.tb_ne = wx.TextCtrl(self, -1, value="", pos=(160, 120),
                                 size=(30, -1))
        self.se_label = wx.StaticText(self, -1, "S of E", pos=(160, 190),
                                      size=wx.DefaultSize)
        self.tb_se = wx.TextCtrl(self, -1, value="", pos=(160, 160),
                                 size=(30, -1))
        self.sw_label = wx.StaticText(self, -1, "S of W", pos=(100, 190),
                                      size=wx.DefaultSize)
        self.tb_sw = wx.TextCtrl(self, -1, value="", pos=(110, 160),
                                 size=(30, -1))

        self.Bind(wx.EVT_PAINT, self.OnPaint)

    def OnPaint(self, evt):
        """set up the device context (DC) for painting"""
        self.dc = wx.PaintDC(self)
        self.dc.BeginDrawing()
        self.dc.SetPen(wx.Pen("grey", style=wx.SOLID, width=2))
        # Draw crosshair lines
        self.dc.DrawLine(150, 90, 150, 210)  # vert
        self.dc.DrawLine(90, 150, 210, 150)   # horiz
        self.dc.EndDrawing()
        del self.dc

app = wx.PySimpleApp()
frame = wx.Frame(None, -1, "Drawing stuff...", size=(300, 300))
MyPanel(frame, -1)
frame.Show(True)
app.MainLoop()